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Covered bridges in China / China Highway and Transportation Society.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- China Highway and Transportation Society, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Zhong guo lang qiao. English.
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Covered bridges--China.
- Covered bridges.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 366 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : Springer ; [China] : China Communications Press, [2021]
- Language Note:
- Translated from Chinese.
- Summary:
- This book is the first comprehensive work on Chinese covered bridges study, covering fields of human geography, historical buildings, and transportation. It includes more than 300 covered bridges of ancient and modern China, researching and analyzing their historical evolutions, architectural technologies and aesthetic values. And it, for the first time, divides Chinese covered bridges into six covered bridge belts and fills the academic gaps. This book presents an informative and splendid tour into covered bridges, illustrated and full of humanist consciousness. It targets on audience who works in transportation, human geography, historical buildings and Chinese traditional culture with its significant value both in academy and art.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9811661545
- 9789811661549
- OCLC:
- 1264137701
- Publisher Number:
- 99989028426
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