Chinese Bridges

by Ronald G. Knapp

Book Overview

This book, like the author's The Chinese House, explores the full range of this important architectural form, emphasizing regional patterns, historical developments, and structural forms, but also the symbolism implicit in the decorative elements which make up Chinese bridges. Not only admired by Western travelers from earliest times to the present, Chinese bridges of all types figure as conspicuous landmarks in Chinese brush paintings and prominent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195857283
• ISBN13: 9780195857283
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"