Product Description: Ritual and Ceremonial Buildings details the formation and historical development of ritual architecture, from the Confucian ritual concept to the sacrificial architecture of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The term “ritual architecture” is applied to buildings and structures constructed for sacrificial purposes, such as altars and temples...read more

Product Description: [Please note: This book is in Chinese language text only.] Using rich images and illustrations plus insight and commentaries from leading Chinese experts, this new books reveals and explores the finest buildings from the Qing Dynasty in China...read more

Product Description: Innumerable sacrificial altars and ancestral temples bear witness to the role of Confucianism, which was the dominant ideology in China for over 2000 years. Many of these elegant ritual and ceremonial buildings are devoted exclusively to the remains of illustrious forebears, emperors and kings...read more

Presents a history of over seven thousand years of Chinese architecture. (view table of contents)