Fujian's Tulou A Treasure of Chinese Traditional Civilian Residence
This book analyzes a large number of typical tulou buildings and compact communities in detail, and painstakingly studies the way of life practiced in these communities, their defense systems, building techniques, spatial features, antithetical couplets c
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Fujian’s Tulou A Treasure of Chinese Traditional Civilian Residence
Fujian’s Tulou
Hanmin Huang
Fujian’s Tulou A Treasure of Chinese Traditional Civilian Residence
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Hanmin Huang Fujian Provincial Institute of Architect Fuzhou, Fujian, China Translated by Yan Yang
ISBN 978-981-13-7927-7 ISBN 978-981-13-7928-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7928-4
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Foreword
As a native of Fujian Province, Hanmin Huang completed his master’s degree thesis on Fujian civilian residence in 1982, adding contributions in the field of architecture. He has traveled in Fujian Province frequently and has had many research published since then. I once visited him in Fuzhou 10 years ago. He showed me a pile of research documents. I remember very well how he talked about the local features of civilian residence in Fujian. Recently, I received from him a manuscript with the title Fujian’s Tulou: A Treasure of Chinese Traditional Civilian Residence. I ended up finishing it at one sitting. It is the most detailed, the most completed and the most profound book on tulou at present. It is not only a valuable achievement for research on Chinese civilian residence but for the Chinese architectural study as well. I was so enthralled with it that I decided to write a few words for the book at right away. It is a book of vast investigation, visit, and research effort. How did Hanmin Huang manage it? As the head and architect in chief of Fuji
