Covered Bridges in China

ISBN-13: 9789811661570 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 366 str.

China Highway and Transportation Society

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Six Remaining Covered Bridge Belts.- Introduction.- Covered Bridge Belt in North China.- Covered Bridge Belt in Northwest China.- Covered Bridge Belt in Southwest China.- Covered Bridge Belt in South Central China.- Covered Bridge Belt in Southeast China.- Covered Bridges in Jiangnan.-Covered Bridges in Other Areas.- Appendix Comparison Table of Chinese and English.- Vocabulary.- Postscript.

O autorze

China Highway and Transportation Society is the most authoritative academic society with the widest range of disciplines in Chinese transportation research community. It has been committed to the inheritance and dissemination of transportation culture over the years. And it has completed compilation works of important industry books and more than 100 kinds of literature, including A Guide to Chinese Bridge, A Guide of Chinese Roads, The History of Chinese Roads, The Culture of Bridges, The Culture of Roads, Encyclopedia of China—Transportation Volume (3^rd Edition) and Record of Expressway Construction in China.