宫殿建筑

General Introduction

Notes on the Photographs

The Imperial Palace in Shenyang

《中国古建筑之美宫殿建筑(英文版)》是由中国建筑工业出版社出版。《中国古建筑之美宫殿建筑(英文版)》内容简介：The sophistication of ancient Chinese architecture gives it a specialplace within the architecture of the world. There are magnificentimperial palaces, solemn and breathtaking imperial tombs,mysterious sacrificial and ancestral altars and temples as well asa variety of vernacular dwellings of natural simplicity. Religiousbuildings are dotted about the country, with a riotous profusionof Buddhist, Taoist and Islamic temples or mosques. On top of allthis, city walls and fortifications, civic buildings for miscellaneouspurposes are rich in variety and form impressive landmarks.The exceptional series offers wide coverage of themes pertainingto all aspects of Chinese architecture and is unrivaled both for itsextensiveness and accuracy as well as for the presentation of thematerial.【作者简介】Ru Jinghua graduated from Dept. of Architecture,Tsinghua University, Beijing. Since then she devoted herself to researches, designs, construction and historic preservation in the field of ancient Chinese architecture.As a senior architect, she has been working in the Palace Museum. Several dozens of articles on ancient Chinesearchitecture she wrote were published. She is one oftheauthors and compilers of the Palaces of the ForbiddenCity and the Palaces Volume of the Great Treasury ofChinese Fine Arts. She designed a 150-metre-longshopping street, known as the Ning-Rong Street, withover 40 early-Qing-style shops, stores and residentialmansions, which was built in Zhengding, HebeiProvince, for shooting TV serial ofA Dream of RedMansions.Peng Hualiang graduated from the Department ofArchitecture of Tangshan Engineering College ofJiaotong University. Thereafter, he worked in the Central Design Institute of the Ministry of Building Engineeringand the Editorial Department of the ArchitecturalJournal successively. He was the editor-in-chief ofHong Kong Architecture and one of the authors of AGuide to Ancient Chinese Architecture. The majorworks he edited and rendered such as Selected Works ofLiang Sicheng, Palaces and Religious Buildings Volumesof the Great Treasury of Chinese Fine Arts. And theReference Materials of Architectural Design Vol. 3 havewon a national first prize in scientific and technologicalbooks.