Carpentry and building in late imperial China : a study of the fifteenth-century carpenter's manual, Lu Ban jing / by Klaas Ruitenbeek.
Includes text of Lu Ban jing 魯班經 in English and Chinese.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-510) and index.

Local access dig.pdf. [Lu Ban jing.pdf]

1. Early Graphics in China - Pictorial Writing - Geometrical Designs - From Ornament to Narrative: Warring States and Han Illustrations - Early Farming Paintings
2. Han to Tang: Realism on the Rise - Aesthetics and Realism to the Fore- Scale Drawing and Perspective - The Dominance of Brush and Line - Models, Automata, and Technological Drawing - The Advent of Woodblock Printing
3. Song and Yuan: A Golden Age - Ruled-line Painting and Its Critics - Government, Printing, and Technological Representations - The Collection of the Most Important Military Techniques (Wujing zongyao) - The New Armillary Sphere and Celestial Globe System Essentials (Xinyixiang fayao) - The Building Standards (Yingzao fashi) - The Pictures of Tilling and Weaving (Geng zhi tu) - The Agricultural Treatise (Nongshu) of Wang Zhen
4. The New Confucian Paradigm - Realism in Retreat - Elite Dominance of Painting - "Historical" Painting - Philosophic Contributions to the New Painting Aesthetic - Painting and Calligraphy
5. Late Ming and The Exploitation of the Works of Nature - The Exploitation of the Works of Nature: A Culmination of Sorts - Song Yingxing and His World - Book Illustration in the Late Ming - Why This Work? - Assessing the Illustrations - Production Challenges - The Later History of the Illustrations
6. Qing Developments: Roads Not Taken - The Seventeenth-Century Transition - The Jesuit Contribution and Its Limited Impact - A Qualified Last Hurrah for Realism: Architectural Painting in the Qing
Closing Comments - Non-technological Aims in Portrayals of Technology - Pre-eminence of Agriculture and Human Inputs - Underrepresented Technologies - The Absence of Standards for Technical Drawing - The Role of Government Workshops - Maturity or Stagnation?

Local access dig.pdf. [Golas-Picturing technology China.pdf]

Shanghai jindai jianzhu shigao 上海近代建築史稿 / Chen Congzhou, Zhang Ming zhubian 陳從周, 章明主編 ; Shanghai Shi minyong jianzhu shejiyuan bianzhu 上海市民用建築設計院編著.

Engravings and photographs of Chinese architectural landmarks, all from Western sources (postcards, prints, etc). Arranged by architectural type, with original captions (in English, French, German, etc.) and explanation in Chinese with historical information on the site.
Engravings by Bonnetain, Hooker, Allom, Wells Williams, Swinhoe; photographs by Bockenheimer, Thompson, Lynch, Borel, Boerschmann, Hedin, Lidell, Krausse, Navarra, Geil, Hesse-Wartegg, Denby, Forsyth, Martin, Piassetsky, Bird, etc.