Chinese Architecture and Metaphor: Song Culture in the Yingzao Fashi Building Manual

by Jiren Feng

Investigating the historical tradition of Chinese architectural writing from antiquity to the twelfth century, Chinese Architecture and Metaphor reveals significant and fascinating social and cultural phenomena in the most important primary text for the study of the Chinese building tradition. Unlike previous scholarship, which has reviewed this imperially commissioned architectural manual largely as a technical work, this volume considers the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824833635
• ISBN13: 9780824833633
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 10.0"