Allegorical architecture
Subtitle: living myth and architectonics in southern China
By: Xing Ruan
Series: Spatial habitus; Spatial habitus (Series)
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780824821517
Subjects: Architecture, Dong; Ethnic architecture -- China, Southwest; Vernacular architecture -- China, Southwest; Symbolism in architecture -- China, Southwest
Other titles: Living myth and architectonics in southern China
Description: "Allegorical Architecture offers the first detailed architectural analysis of built forms and building types of the minority groups in southern China and of the Dong nationality in particular. It argues that Dong architecture symbolically resembles it inhabitants in many ways."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-214) and index