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Article: Chinese Architecture.(Book Review)
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- China Review International
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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Fu Xinian, Guo Daiheng, Liu Xujie, Pan Guxi, Qiao Yun, and Sun Dazhang. English text edited and expanded by Nancy S. Steinhardt. Chinese Architecture. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. xii, 366 pp. Hardcover $65.00, ISBN 0-300-09559-7.
Chinese architectural history is a relatively new discipline. Major works have been published by Western and Japanese explorers, architects, and sinologists only since the beginning of the twentieth century. The first comprehensive Chinese architectural history in a Western language was Chinesische architektur (Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth A-G, 1925) by von Ernst Boerschmann (1873-1949). This was followed by a more ...