Chinese architecture and metaphor : Song culture in the Yingzao fashi building manual / Jiren Feng.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-295) and index.

1 The Historical Tradition of Writing on Architecture: From Antiquity to the Mid-Tenth Century 14 -- 2 From the Mujing to the Yingzao Fashi: The Rise of Building Manuals and the Construction of Architectural Knowledge 60 -- 3 The Yingzao Fashi: The Making of Widespread Legitimated Building Knowledge 100 -- 4 The Yingzao Fashi Architectural Terminology (I) - Bracketing Likened to Flowers, Branches, and Foliage: Architectural Metaphors and Conceptualization in Tenth to Twelfth Century China 138 -- 5 The Yingzao Fashi Architectural Terminology (II): The Interplay of Literature, Arts, and Craftsmanship 181

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Li Mingzhong Yingzao fashi 李明仲營造法式 : [36卷] / [Li Jie bianxiu ; Zhu Qiqian jiaoke ; Tao Xiang jijiao 李誡編修 ; 朱啓鈐校刻 ; 陶湘輯校 ].
"紫江朱氏依據影鈔紹興本, 按崇寧本格式校刻..."--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references.

"Yingzao fashi 營造法式 (Treatise on architectural methods). Li Jie 李誡, (?-1110). completed in 1100; prnt., 1103; rpnt., 1145. The Yingzao fashi was lost in the early sixteenth century and only came to light when a manuscript copy was found in 1919. Li was vice-minister in the Board of Construction and supervisor of the construction and maintenance of government buildings in the capital Bianliang (modern Kaifeng)..." Cf. Wilkinson, E., Chinese history, a manual, p. 681.
See also the Yingzo Fashi Project sponsored by the Department of Architecture of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.