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This book is composed mainly by two parts.The first part, chapter one to chapter eight, makesa brief introduction to different type of traditionalChinese architecture such as city, residence, pal-ace, Buddhism temple, garden and bridge; Thesecond part, chapter nine to chapter sixteen, ex-plains how traditional Chinese craftsmen work. By reading the first part, you can catch aglimpse of those great cities, splendid palaces,variety residence, solemn temples and elegantgardens. The second part mainly concerns somespecific construction craft. The traditional Chi-nese construction craft includes wood work,brick work, clay work, color-painting worketc. Each of them has unique skill and experi-ence which has been transferred from ancient topresent through mentorship. Because of specif-ic ancient Chinese society, most of those skilland experience could not be recorded on booksso the mentorship is the only way to keep them.Although this book describes some of those skilland experience, it can not reach even a t

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