Overview of Chinese Residential Buildings

Author: Liu Dunzhen
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book provides a comprehensive overview of Chinese residential architecture. It represents a contribution to architectural history by Mr. Liu Dunzhen. A General Survey of Chinese Residential Architecture is a pioneering work and an outstanding book. Currently, research on vernacular architecture in Fujian, Zhejiang, and Southwest China is being conducted by many scholars. This work is a systematic monograph on ancient Chinese vernacular architecture, covering its development from ancient times to the modern era and analyzing it both vertically and horizontally. It has played a significant role in advancing the study of Chinese vernacular architecture. The book is divided into two parts: The first part introduces the general situation of Han Chinese residential architecture since the Neolithic Age from the perspective of development. The second part selects several examples from existing materials to illustrate the types of residential architecture from the middle Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, which is from the late 15th century to the early 20th century, along with their various characteristics. However, residential architecture introduced by Western countries after the Opium War is not within the scope of this article.