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Between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the year 600, more than thirty dynasties, kingdoms, and states rose and fell on the eastern side of the Asian continent. The founders and rulers of those polities represented the spectrum of peoples in North, East, and Central Asia. Nearly all of them built palaces, altars, temples, tombs, and cities, and almost without exception, the architecture was grounded in the building tradition of China. Illustrated with colour and black-and-white photographs, maps, and drawings, Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil uses all available evidenceâChinese texts, secondary literature in six languages, excavation reports, and most important, physical remainsâto present the architectural history of this tumultuous period in Chinaâs history. Its author, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, arguably North Americaâs leading scholar of pre-modern Chinese architecture, has done field research at nearly every site mentioned, many of which were unknown twenty ye

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      Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
      Publication Date: 1/30/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780824838225, 978-0824838225
      ISBN10: 082483822X
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      Book Synopsis
      Between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the year 600, more than thirty dynasties, kingdoms, and states rose and fell on the eastern side of the Asian continent. The founders and rulers of those polities represented the spectrum of peoples in North, East, and Central Asia. Nearly all of them built palaces, altars, temples, tombs, and cities, and almost without exception, the architecture was grounded in the building tradition of China. Illustrated with colour and black-and-white photographs, maps, and drawings, Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil uses all available evidenceâChinese texts, secondary literature in six languages, excavation reports, and most important, physical remainsâto present the architectural history of this tumultuous period in Chinaâs history. Its author, Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, arguably North Americaâs leading scholar of pre-modern Chinese architecture, has done field research at nearly every site mentioned, many of which were unknown twenty ye

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