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Chinese houses : a pictorial tour of China's traditional dwellings / Chen Congzhou, Pan Hongxuan, Lu Bingjie ; photographs by Jin Baoyuan.

by Chen, Congzhou, 1918-

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Reader's Digest Association, c2008.

Architecture, Domestic -- China.

Vernacular architecture -- China.

334 p. : chiefly col. ill., 1 col. map ; 30 cm.

Translation of: Zhongguo min ju.

Introduction -- Four-sided courtyard houses -- Huizhou houses -- Houses in the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River -- Earth buildings -- Houses inhabited by returned overseas Chinese and their relatives in Fujian and Guangdong -- Houses in Taiwan -- Houses with one main building, two wings and one screen wall & houses in the shape of a square seal -- Hanging houses -- Stilt houses -- Stone houses -- Flat-roof adobe houses -- Cave dwellings -- Yurts & heated houses -- Postscript -- Glossary -- Index -- Dynasties in Chinese history.

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