A Selected Bibliography of Traditional Chinese Architecture Jerome Silbergeld, Cary Liu, Nancy Steinhardt, Wei Yang Version: September 8, 2004 Call numbers within the Princeton University library system are provided in many cases, using the following library designators: (SA) = Marquand Library, School of Art and Archaeology (F) = Firestone Library (EX) = Rare Books, Firestone Library (UES) = School of Architecture Library (Gest) = Gest Library (SY) = Near Eastern (Gest Library) Subject classifications are indicated with the following abbreviations: Gen general, survey, multiple topics, photo survey ArcD architectural decoration, painting, tiles BldgT building technology, construction, profession, regulations, guilds Bridge bridges B Buddhist Cav cave-temples, grottos Early Neolithic to Han dynasty FS feng-shui, building magic Furn furniture Gard gardens GW gates, walls, p'ai-lou Imp imperial, palaces, altars Misc misc. Mod modern Pag pagodas Rel religious: temples, shrines Tao Taoist Theo theory, symbology, numerology, cosmology, origins, aesthetics Tomb tomb, mortuary 20th twentieth century Urb city history, urban planning Vern vernacular, domestic 2 Western Language Entries Adshead, S.A.M. "Timber as a Factor in Chinese History: Problems, Sources and Hypotheses." In Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Asian Studies, vol. 1, pp. 1-6. Hong Kong: Asian Research Service, 1979. [(Gest) DS1.5.x15 1979] /BldgT Along the Ancient Silk Routes: Central Asian Art from the West Berlin State Museums. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982. /Rel /B /Cav Ancient Chinese Bridges. Beijing: Cultural Objects Press, 1957. /Bridge Andrews, Julia. Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. /Urb:Beijing Arlington, L.C., and Lewisohn, William. In Search of Old Peking. Beijing: Henri Vetch, 1935; reprint, New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. [(Gest) DS795.A7 1967a] /Gen /Urb:Beijing /Imp /Vern /Tomb Ayscough, Florence. "Notes on the Symbolism of the Purple Forbidden City." Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 52 (1921), pp. 51-78. /Gen /Urb:Beijing /Imp /Theo Belsky, Richard. "The Urban Ecology of Late-Imperial Beijing Reconsidered: The Transformation of Social Space in China's Late-Imperial Capital City." Joournal of Urban History, November 2000. /Urb:Beijing Bennett, Steven. "Patterns of the Sky and Earth: A Chinese Science of Applied Cosmology." Chinese Science 3 (1978), pp. 1-26. [(Gest) Q145.C48] /FS /Theo Berliner, Nancy. "Ornamental Panel Paintings on Huizhou Houses." Orientations 25 (1994.1), pp. 46-50. /ArcD /Vern:Hui-chou . Berliner, Nancy Z., and Sarah Handler. Friends of the House: Furniture from China's Towns and Villages. Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 1996. [(F) NK2668.B47 1996q] /Furn _________. Yin Yu Tang: The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House. Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2003. (SA) 3 Beurdeley, Michel. Chinese Furniture. Translated by Katherine Watson. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1979. [(SA) NK2668.B38] /Furn Bielenstein, Hans. "Lo-yang in Later Han Times." Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 26 (1954), pp. 1-209. /Urb:Loyang /Imp Blaser, Werner. Chinese Pavilion Architecture: Quality, Design, Structure Exemplified by China. Translated by D. Q. Stephenson. New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., c1974. /Gard . Courtyard House in China: Tradition and Present. Translated by D. Q. Stephenson. Basel: Birkh auser, 1979. [(SA) NA7448 .B55; (UES) NA7523 .B55] /Vern Boerschmann, Ernst. Chinesische Architektur. 2 vols. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1925. [(SA) NA1540.B63q] /Gen . Die Baukunst und religiöse Kultur der Chinesen. 3 vols. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1911, 1913, 1931. /Gen /Rel . Picturesque China: Architecture and Landscape, A Journey through Twelve Provinces. Translated by Louis Hamilton. London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., n.d. [257 photos dated from 1906-1909, plus 30 others from various sources] [(F) (SA) NA1540.B58.192q] /Gen Bouillard, Georges. Les tombeaux imperiaux : Ming et Tsing : historique, cartes, plans ; Le temple des lamas : temple lamaiste de Yung ho kung a Peking : descriptions, plans, photos, ceremonies ; Peking et ses environs : dixieme serie : Tsing ming yuan (la Fontaine de jade). Beijing: A. Nachbauer, 1925-1931. [(F) 1725.704.21] /Urb:Beijing /Imp /Gard /Tomb /Rel Boyd, Andrew. Chinese Architecture and Town Planning. London: Tiranti Press, 1962; Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962. [(SA) NA1540.B68 1962] /Gen /Urb Bradstock, Timothy Roland. "Craft Guilds in Ch'ing Dynasty China." Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1984. /BldgT Bredon, Juliet. Beijing: A Historical and Intimate Description of its Chief Places of Interest. Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 2nd edition,1922. [(Gest)1725.704.208] /Urb:Beijing Bretschneider, Emil. Archaeological and Historical Researches on Peking and Its Environs. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1876. [(F) rare books] /Urb:Beijing Buck, David. "Directions in Chinese Urban Planning." Urbanism Past and Present 1 (1975-76), pp. 24-35. [(F) HT101.U74] /Urb 4 , editor and translator. "Archaeological Explorations at the Ancient Capital of Lu at Qufu in Shandong Province." Chinese Sociology and Anthropology 19 (1986:1), pp. 1- 76. [(F) HM1.C4] /Urb /Early Bulling, Annelise. "Buddhist Temples in the T'ang Period." Oriental Art, n.s., 1 (1955:2), pp. 79-86; (1955:3), pp. 115-22. [(SA) N1.O69q] /Rel /B Bushell, Stephen W. Chinese Art. 2 vols. London: The Board of Education, 2nd edition, 1909. /Gen Bussagli, Mario. Oriental Architecture (1973). 2 vols. New York: Electa and Rizzoli, revised edition, 1989. [(SA) NA1460.B8 713 1989] /Gen Cameron, Nigel, and Brake, Brian. Peking: A Tale of Three Cities. New York: Harper & Row, 1965. /Urb:Beijing Canfield, Suzette. "Bridge Construction and Repair in the Ming and Ch'ing." Papers on China 24 (Dec. 1971), pp. 19-40. /Bridge Cao Xueqin [Tsao Hsüeh-ch'in]. The Story of the Stone. Translated by David Hawkes. Vol. 1: The Golden Days. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973. /Gard Caswell, James O. Written and Unwritten: Buddhist Caves at Yungang. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1988. /Rel /B /Cav Chambers, Sir William. Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Presses, Machines and Utensils. London: 1757. [(SA) N7340.C35e] /Furn Chan, Charis. Imperial China. Architectural Guides for Travelers. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992. /Urb:Beijing /Imp Chang, Amos Ih Tiao. The Existence of Intangible Content in Architectonic Form. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1956. Review in Ars Orientalis 3 (1959), pp. 229-232. [(F) (SA) NA2500 .C36; (UES) NA2500 .C45 1956] /Theo /Tao . The Tao of Architecture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956. [(SA) (Gest) (UES)NA2500.C45] /Theo /Tao Chang, Kwang-chih. The Archaeology of Ancient China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 4th edition, 1986. [(F) DS715 .C38 1983] /Early:Neolithic, Shang . Shang Civilization. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980. [(F) (SA) (Gest) DS744 .C383] /Early:Shang 5 Chang Sen-dou. "The Historical Trend of Chinese Urbanization." Annals of the American Association of Geographers 53 (1963:2), pp. 109-143. /Urb . "The Morphology of Walled Capitals." In G. William Skinner, ed., The City in Late Imperial China (q.v.), pp. 75-100. /Urb /GW Charmasson, Therese. Researche sur une technique divinatoire: la geomancie dans l'Occident medieval. Paris: H. Champion, 1980. [(F) BF 1771.C47.1980] /FS /Theo Chen, C.Z. "Some Ancient Chinese Concepts of Town and Country." Town and Planning Review 19 (1943), pp. 160-63. /Theo /Urb Chen, Charles. "Chinese Architectural Theory." Architectural Review * (July 1947), pp. ***. [(SA) Oversize NA1 .A682q] /Theo Ch'en Hung-shun., and Kates, G. N. "Prince Kung's Palace and Its Adjoining Garden in Peking." Monumenta Serica 5 (1940), pp. 1-80. [(Gest) 1721.651] /Imp /Gard/Urb:Beijing Chen Lifang, and Yu Sianglin. The Garden Art of China. Portland: Timber Press, 1986. [(SA) SB457.55.C43] /Gard Chen Mingda [Ch'en Ming-ta]. Yingzao fashih damu zuo yanjiu (Research on structural carpentry in the YTFS). 2 vols. Beijng: Wenwu chubanshe, 1981. [English summary] [(SA) TH2031.L493 C47 1981; (Gest) TN6540/4405.76] /BldgT Chinese Academy of Architecture. Ancient Chinese Architecture. Beijing and Hong Kong: China Building Industry Press and Joint Publishing Company, 1982. 2nd edition with the title Classical Chinese Architecture, 1986. [(SA) NA1540.C54313 1986q] /Gen Chinese People's Publishing House, eds. Through the Moon Gate: A Guide to China's Historic Monuments. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. /Gen Chinese Traditional Architecture. Edited by Nancy S. Steinhardt. New York: China Institute, 1984. [(SA) NA1543.S84; (UES) ibid.] /Gen Chinese Walled Cities: A Collection of Maps from Shina Jokaku no Gaiyo (Japanese expeditionary forces in China, 1940). Ed by Benjamin E. Wallacker. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1974. [(Gest) DS710 .I8413] /Gen /Urb /GW Chung Wah Nan. The Art of Chinese Gardens. Hong Kong: Kong Kong University Press, 1982. [(SA) (Gest) SB457.C48 1982q] /Gard Cibot, Pierre Martial. "Essai sur les jardins de plaisance des Chinois." In Mémoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les moeurs, les usages, etc., des Chinois, vol. 8, pp. 301- 326. Paris: Nyons, 1782. [EX 1722.631] /Gard 6 Clunas, Craig. Chinese Furniture. London: Bamboo Publishing, 1988. [(SA) NK2668.C53] /Furn . Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China. London : Reaktion Books,