Economy and extravagance in craft culture: the deployment of a grand building code in Chinese construction history

The grand building code called Yingzao fashi, drafted in the twelfth-century Song dynasty, was used as a technical reference guide and assisted previous researchers in analyses of premodern Chinese building structures and construction, yet how the building code entangled with contemporary society, c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pengfei Ma, Mengbi Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2023-11-01
Series:Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13467581.2023.2182635