The Art of Chinese Pavilions

Author: Zhu Junzhen
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 711903118X
Published on: 2002-01
Hardcover

A professor with the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University and,the author has traveled across China and taken photos of a great many pavilions and collected a great quantity of relevant materials over the past decades.This book first gives a general introduction to pavilions and the history of pavilions ,and then goes on to talk about the functions and origins of different types of pavilions such as memorial pavilions ,imperial stele pavilions ,well pavilions ,pavilions for religious ceremonies and pavilion gardens.