Reconstituting Chinese Building Tradition: The Yingzao fashi in the Early Twentieth Century
Shiqiao Li

The afterlife of a Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) construction manual, the Yingzao fashi (1103), as it played a critical role in concretizing a national architectural tradition for China, revealing fascinating characters of nationalism, philological scholarship, and modern historiography in China.

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