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China's Old Dwellings

Ronald G. Knapp

4.7/5 ( ratings)

China's Old Dwellings is the most comprehensive critical examination of China's folk architectural forms in any language. It and its companion volume, China's Living Houses: Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation, together form a landmark study of the environmental, historical, and social factors that influence housing forms for nearly a quarter of the world's population. Both books draw on the author's thirty years of field-work and extensive travel in China as well as published and unpublished material in many languages.

Language: English

Pages: 424

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Release: April 04, 2000

ISBN: 0824822145

ISBN 13: 9780824822149

China's Old Dwellings

Ronald G. Knapp

4.7/5 ( ratings)

China's Old Dwellings is the most comprehensive critical examination of China's folk architectural forms in any language. It and its companion volume, China's Living Houses: Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation, together form a landmark study of the environmental, historical, and social factors that influence housing forms for nearly a quarter of the world's population. Both books draw on the author's thirty years of field-work and extensive travel in China as well as published and unpublished material in many languages.

Language: English

Pages: 424

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Release: April 04, 2000

ISBN: 0824822145

ISBN 13: 9780824822149

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