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Introduction. Beyond the forbidden city
Chapter 1. Genesis of Chinese buildings and cities. Cities and buildings before written records ; Cities and buildings of the Bronze Age ; Western Zhou to warring states
Chapter 2. Architecture of the First Emperor and his predecessors. Rulers' cities ; Rulers' tombs ; Architecture of China's First Empire
Chapter 3. Han architecture. Han Chang'an: the First Emperor's vision realized ; Han Luoyang and other cities: realistic imperial vision and nonimperial presence ; Han Tombs outside the capitals ; Additional evidence of Han architecture ; China's earliest Buddhist architecture
Chapter 4. An age of turmoil: three kingdoms, two Jins, sixteen states. Urbanism and palaces in an age of disunion ; New buildings for a Buddhist age ; Tombs
Chapter 5. Northern dynasties and southern dynasties. Cities and palaces ; Tombs of royalty ; Tombs in Gansu, Koguryo, and Datong ; Great age of Buddhist cave-chapels ; China's earliest pagodas ; Toward a timber frame ; A Buddhist monument to Pious deeds ; Sarcophagus as architecture
Chapter 6. Sui and Tang: architecture for empires. Three great cities ; Palace architecture in and outside the Sui-Tang capitals ; Sacred wooden architecture ; Exemplary Tang pagodas ; Tombs ; Five extraordinary buildings ; Tang architecture outside the empire
Chapter 7. Five dynasties and ten kingdoms. Humble halls for aspiring rulers, 963-966 ; Tenth-century timber architecture before 960 ; Official and royal tombs ; Architecture of the Dali Kingdom
Chapter 8. Grandeur and magnificence under Liao and Western Xia. The ancestral prefecture ; Magnificent halls
Liao style ; Liao pagodas ; Liao tombs ; Octagonal construction: Liao and Western Xia
Chapter 9. The Chinese building standards. Fundamentals of the Chinese timber frame ; Bracket sets and roofs ; Jiehua
Chapter 10. Song elegance and Jin opulence.Religious architecture north and south, 960-1127 ; Religious architecture, 1127-1279 ; Secular architecture
Chapter 11: The Chinese city between Tang and Ming. Urbanism on the grasslands ; Metropolises of millions ; Jin capitals ; The road to Dadu ; Yuan Dadu and Zhongdu ; Cities and princely retreats outside the capitals
Chapter 12. The Mongol century. Eminent halls ; Other Yuan buildings ; Architecture of foreign faiths
Chapter 13. The Chinese imperial city and its architecture, Ming and Qing. Imperial Nanjing ; Imperial Beijing ; Building standards in Qing palatial architecture ; Altars ; Thirteen Ming tombs ; Qing imperial architecture
Chapter 14: Late imperial architecture in Chinese style. Ming Buddhist monasteries ; Monasteries on sacred peaks ; Architecture of Confucianism ; Three towers in Shanxi
Chapter 15. Convergences: Lamaist, Dai, Islamic. Architecture of Lamaist Buddhism ; Chengde: Qing vision realized ; Buddhist architecture in the Yunnan marshes ; Dong towers ; Ming and Qing Islamic architecture
Chapter 16. Garden and house. Gardens of South China ; Imperial gardens of Beijing ; Residential architecture
Chapter 17. China comes to Europe, Europe comes to China, Chinese students come to the United States. Chinoiserie ; Sequestered European architecture ; China's First Generation of Architects ; Conclusion. Resolving the Forbidden City. The Counteraxis.
Chapter 1. Genesis of Chinese buildings and cities. Cities and buildings before written records ; Cities and buildings of the Bronze Age ; Western Zhou to warring states
Chapter 2. Architecture of the First Emperor and his predecessors. Rulers' cities ; Rulers' tombs ; Architecture of China's First Empire
Chapter 3. Han architecture. Han Chang'an: the First Emperor's vision realized ; Han Luoyang and other cities: realistic imperial vision and nonimperial presence ; Han Tombs outside the capitals ; Additional evidence of Han architecture ; China's earliest Buddhist architecture
Chapter 4. An age of turmoil: three kingdoms, two Jins, sixteen states. Urbanism and palaces in an age of disunion ; New buildings for a Buddhist age ; Tombs
Chapter 5. Northern dynasties and southern dynasties. Cities and palaces ; Tombs of royalty ; Tombs in Gansu, Koguryo, and Datong ; Great age of Buddhist cave-chapels ; China's earliest pagodas ; Toward a timber frame ; A Buddhist monument to Pious deeds ; Sarcophagus as architecture
Chapter 6. Sui and Tang: architecture for empires. Three great cities ; Palace architecture in and outside the Sui-Tang capitals ; Sacred wooden architecture ; Exemplary Tang pagodas ; Tombs ; Five extraordinary buildings ; Tang architecture outside the empire
Chapter 7. Five dynasties and ten kingdoms. Humble halls for aspiring rulers, 963-966 ; Tenth-century timber architecture before 960 ; Official and royal tombs ; Architecture of the Dali Kingdom
Chapter 8. Grandeur and magnificence under Liao and Western Xia. The ancestral prefecture ; Magnificent halls
Liao style ; Liao pagodas ; Liao tombs ; Octagonal construction: Liao and Western Xia
Chapter 9. The Chinese building standards. Fundamentals of the Chinese timber frame ; Bracket sets and roofs ; Jiehua
Chapter 10. Song elegance and Jin opulence.Religious architecture north and south, 960-1127 ; Religious architecture, 1127-1279 ; Secular architecture
Chapter 11: The Chinese city between Tang and Ming. Urbanism on the grasslands ; Metropolises of millions ; Jin capitals ; The road to Dadu ; Yuan Dadu and Zhongdu ; Cities and princely retreats outside the capitals
Chapter 12. The Mongol century. Eminent halls ; Other Yuan buildings ; Architecture of foreign faiths
Chapter 13. The Chinese imperial city and its architecture, Ming and Qing. Imperial Nanjing ; Imperial Beijing ; Building standards in Qing palatial architecture ; Altars ; Thirteen Ming tombs ; Qing imperial architecture
Chapter 14: Late imperial architecture in Chinese style. Ming Buddhist monasteries ; Monasteries on sacred peaks ; Architecture of Confucianism ; Three towers in Shanxi
Chapter 15. Convergences: Lamaist, Dai, Islamic. Architecture of Lamaist Buddhism ; Chengde: Qing vision realized ; Buddhist architecture in the Yunnan marshes ; Dong towers ; Ming and Qing Islamic architecture
Chapter 16. Garden and house. Gardens of South China ; Imperial gardens of Beijing ; Residential architecture
Chapter 17. China comes to Europe, Europe comes to China, Chinese students come to the United States. Chinoiserie ; Sequestered European architecture ; China's First Generation of Architects ; Conclusion. Resolving the Forbidden City. The Counteraxis.