Vimalin Rujivacharakul, PhD., is Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on history of East Asian architecture, world architecture, Sino-Japanese intellectual history, history of collecting, and thing theory.; Luo Deyin, PhD., is Associate Professor of History of Architecture at Tsinghua University. His research focuses on the study of built form in pre-modern China and the preservation of China's vernacular architecture.
Publisher
Gale Asia
Volume
Copyright
2015
ISBN13
9789814441049
Release
Format
eBook
Grade Level
12th Grade - College Senior
DDC
TBD
Features & Benefits
Presents a critical and thorough analysis of the architecture and history of the Foguang temple, a ninth-century Tang temple in Shanxi, China, and one of the oldest timber structures in the world
Features a full-length English translation of the first extensive research account of the Foguang temple written by Liang Sicheng after his discovery of the temple
Covers the architectural and technical history of Tang timber structure
Includes Liang Sicheng's original writings about the Foguang temple, his photographs and drawings, as well as more recent research literatures
Contains extensive annotated notes throughout the translation and other sections, providing additional details or identifying information that Liang Sicheng or later scholars subsequently adjusted in the other editions of the text
Acknowledgements.
Section 1 Backgrounds
1.1 Why the Temple of Buddha's Light and Liang Sicheng?
1.2 Liang Sicheng and the Temple of Buddha's Light.
Section 2 Ji Wutaishan Foguangsi Jianzhu
2.1 Notes on Translation.
2.2 Notes on the Architecture of the Temple of Buddha's Light at
Mount Wutai.
2.3 Ji Wutaishan Foguangsi Jianzhu () .
2.4 List of Structural and Technical Terms.
Section 3 Supplementary Essays
3.1 China's Oldest Wooden Structure.
3.2 Architecture of the Foguang Temple at Mount Wutai.
3.3 The Nanchan Temple.
3.4 Research on Design Techniques of Traditional Chinese
Architecture.
3.5 The Tang Architectural Icon and the Politics of Chinese
Architectural History.
3.6 What are the Characteristics of Tang Architecture?
