Overview of Chinese Residential Buildings

Author: Liu Dunzhen
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book provides a comprehensive overview of Chinese residential architecture. It represents a contribution of Mr. Liu Dunzhen to architectural history. A General Survey of Chinese Residential Architecture is a pioneering work and an outstanding book. Today, 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. It analyzes and studies Chinese vernacular architecture from both vertical and horizontal perspectives. It has played a significant role in advancing the study of vernacular architecture in China. The book is divided into two parts: The first part introduces the general situation of Han Chinese residential architecture since the Neolithic Age from a developmental perspective. The second part selects several examples from existing materials to illustrate the types of residential architecture from the mid-Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, that is, from the late 15th century to the early 20th century. However, residential architecture introduced by Western countries after the Opium War is not within the scope of this article.