The Guardian of China's Architectural History - Liang Sicheng
簡介
Liang Sicheng is known as the Father of Architecture in China. In over 15 years during the 1930s and 1940s, while his country was at war with Japan, he and his wife Lin Huiyin travelled to more than 200 counties in 15 provinces in the Chinese interior and examined 2,738 ancient buildings. Crossing areas with no paved roads, they travelled on foot or by mules and horse carts and slept in temples, village homes or on the ground. Liang was working for the Institute for Research in Chinese Architecture, which made nearly 1,900 detailed drawings of the buildings. The couple continued their work even during the worst years of the Anti-Japanese war, when they were living in miserable conditions in southwest China. Based on these explorations, Liang wrote A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture, a masterpiece published in English and Chinese. He wanted the whole world, Chinese and non-Chinese, to know of these treasures. Chinese architecture has a history of over 4,000 years and its style has been followed in Korea, Japan and Vietnam. As a meticulous scholar, Sicheng wrote dozens of articles and many books, in Chinese and English, to describe his discoveries. In 1946, he founded the faculty of architecture at Tsinghua University in Beijing and had served as its director until his death in 1972.
目錄
Preface – The Father of Chinese Architecture
Chapter 1. Swimming in Kobe, Singing in Beijing – Liang’s Childhood
Chapter 2. Becoming Architects in the United States
Chapter 3. Teaching in Shenyang, Sudden Death of Father
Chapter 4. Discovering the Hidden Treasures of China’s Architecture
Chapter 5. Escaping from the Japanese Army, Resuming Work in Southwest China
Chapter 6. Wartime Refuge in Remote Town on the Yangtze River
Chapter 7. Teaching at Yale and Princeton, Return to Tsinghua
Chapter 8. Sicheng Fights to Save Ancient Beijing
Chapter 9. Struggle and Criticism: A Second Marriage
Chapter 10. Sicheng’s Calvary during the Cultural Revolution
Chapter 11. Sicheng’s Views on Chinese Architecture and Its History
Bibliography
作者簡介
Mark O’Neill
Mark O’Neill was born in London, England, and educated at Marlborough College and New College, Oxford. After working in Washington D.C., Belfast, and Manchester, he moved to Hong Kong in 1978 and has lived in Asia ever since. After working in journalism and teaching, he started writing books full-time in 2006. This is his 17th book. Nine have editions in Chinese as well as English. He lives in Hong Kong and speaks French, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Author Website: www.mark-oneill.com