Contents Briefing

One could understand a country first from its architecture. Architecture is a miniature of the history of human, a kind of living memory, and a simple language easy to understand. Chinese traditional architecture coexists with European architecture and Islamic architecture as the three architectural systems in the world. Each single room, building, hall, temple, bridge, pagoda, contains abundant meaning of culture, history, politics, religion, society, and so on. This book, in the form of telling stories, introduces the cultural connotation of different forms of Chinese architecture.

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China Intercontinental Press, under the authority of the State Council Information Office, is a multimedia, comprehensive foreign communication institution, whose main function is to make propaganda products. With its principle of "let the world know China, and let China know the world" and through various means and channels, this publishing house uChina Intercontinental Press, under the authority of the Information Office of State Council, is a multimedia, comprehensive foreign comm...    more about