Foreword by Wu Liang-yong
Acknowledgments
Liang Ssu-ch'eng: A Profile
Editorial Method
Preface
The Chinese Structural System
Origins
Editor's Note: The Curved Roof and Bracket Sets
Two Grammar Books
Pre-Buddhist and Cave-Temple Evidence of Timber-Frame Architecture
Indirect Material Evidence
Han Evidence
Cave-Temple Evidence
Monumental Timber-Frame Buildings
The Period of Vigor (ca.850-1050)
The Period of Elegance (ca.1000-1400)
The Period of Rigidity (ca.1400-1912)
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