* 37 Books Pertaining to Chinese Gardens, Houses and Architecture
Osvald Siren, Gardens of China, 1949; Zhao Chenxing, Xiangxi min ju, 2000; Qiao Yun and Sun Dazhang, eds., Chinese Classical Architecture, 1986; Wang Boyang, ed., Zhongguo lidai yishu: jianzhu yishu bian, 1994; Ma Bingjian, Beijing siheyuan, 1993; Alfreda Murck and Wen Fong, A Chinese Garden Court: The Astor Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985; Li Mingzhong, Ying zao fa shi,, 2003, in 8 volumes; Zhongguo wenwu yanjiu suo, Xizang Budala Gong1996, in 2 volumes; Chen Congzhou, Zhongguo ting tang: jiangnan pian, 2003 (2); Staten Island Botanical Garden, Chinese Scholar's Garden; Kai-Yin Lo and Puay-Peng Ho, eds., Living Heritage: Vernacular Environment in China, 1999; Yang Renjiang, She-Kou Lin's Mansion, 1987; Hu Dongchu, The Way of the Virtuous: the Influence of Art and Philosophy on Chinese Garden Design, 1991; Ronald G. Knapp, China's Old Dwellings, 2000; Zhou Junyan, The Finest Works of Vernacular Housing Wood Carvings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, 1998; Adriana Proser, et al., Painted Splendor: the Context and Conservation of A Chinese Reception Hall in the Philadephia Museum of Art, 2004; Klaas Ruitenbeek, Carpentry and Building in Late Imperial China: A Study of the Fifteenth-Century Carpenter's Manual Lu Ban Jing, 1996; Ronald G. Knapp, The Chinese House, 1990; Ronald G. Knapp, China's Living Houses: Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation, 1999; Ronald G. Knapp, China's Vernacular Architecture, 1989; Ronald G. Knapp, China's Traditional Rural Architecture, 1986; David H. Engel, Creating a Chinese Garden, 1986; Nelson I. Wu, Chinese and Indian Architecture, 1963; Eleanor von Erdberg, Chinese Influence on European Garden Structures,1936; Willem A. Grootaers, Rural Temples Around Hsuan-hua (South Chahar), Their Iconography and Their History, 1951; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Exhibition of Chinese Architecture, 1985; Zhang ChenZhongguo Jiangnan gu jianzhu zhuangxiu zhuangshi tudian, 1994, in 2 volumes.
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