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Allegorical architecture:

living myth and architectonics in southern China
Xing Ruan
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University of Hawaii Press, 2006 - Architecture - 219 pages
Allegorical Architecture offers the first detailed architectural
analysis of built forms and building types of the minority groups in
southern China and of the Dong nationality in particular.

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About the author (2006)

Xing Ruan is professor of architecture at the University of New South
Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is coeditor with Ronald Knapp of the
series Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture,
published by University of Hawai'i Press.
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Title   Allegorical architecture: living myth and architectonics in southern 
China
Spatial habitus
Author  Xing Ruan
Edition illustrated, annotated
Publisher       University of Hawaii Press, 2006
ISBN    0824821513, 9780824821517
Length  219 pages