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Architecture

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Asia architecture

• Architecture Asia
• Architecture of Asia. Great buildings online.
• Asian Historical Architecture
• Asian Architecture : China, Japan, and Korea.

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Architects

• Chen Congzhou. 陈从周
• I. M. Pei :In its race to build modern cities, China has welcomed back its most illustrious native son, famous architect I. M. Pei. But his vision of the future is to look to the past to preserve the subtle characteristics of Chinese architecture. By Ron Gluckman /Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu。
• Lin Huiyin. 林徽音

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Chinese architecture in general

• Ancient Architecture
• Architecture at a juncture.[China's concreate blocks]
• The Architecture of China. Digital Image center, University of Virginia
• China : [Gallery : Architecture]
• China. [Photo] Contains images of Chinese traditional and rural architecture.
• Chinese architecture
• Chinese architecture, the buildings and other structures created in China from prehistoric times to the present day.
• Chinese Art and Architecture: An Annotated List of Recent Works in Western Languages
• Digital Museum of Architecture. 建筑数字博物馆
• Experiencing Chinese and Japanese Architecture since 1993
• Hua zhu : a web site for architecture and criticism. 华筑网
• Intelligent Building (GB)
• Jian zhu shi fang. (GB) 建筑石坊.
• 建筑博物馆
• Taiwan architecture.台湾建筑- e-journal
• Views of China By William Alexander, 1796
• Zhongguo jian zhu. 中国建筑
• 中国古代建筑图例

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Vernacular architecture

• China Housing, from China Online.
• China's old dwellings
• Chinese Earth Sheltered Dwelling . By Paul Long
• Chinese Rural Architecture
• Chinese Traditional Buildings and Gardens
• Clan homes in Fujian - Jens Aaberg-Jørgensen
• Earth Building 客家土楼
• Hakka Houses architecture
• Homes
• House Architecture
• Mun dun yi shu zhan. 门礅艺术展
• Siheyuan.四合院
• Siheyuan: the Chinese quadrangle.
• Sustainable Urban Housing in China, MIT Building Technology
• Traditional Dwellings and Settlements in China.
• Vanishing Lanishing Landscapes : Old Hakka Homesteads
• Vernacular Architecture in Historic Chinese Cities
• Wang jiz da yuan.王家大院：中国民居艺术馆
• Yaodong "Cave Dwellings" of North Central China. David Wang, AIA, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Architecture Washington State University Spokane
• Yin Yu Tang : a Home for Chinese Art, Architecture and Culture. Peabody Essex Museum.
• 中国民居博览
• Zhonghua min ju. 中华民居

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Building technology

• The Yingzao Fashi Project. Department of Architecture The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Structural carpentry in the Yingzao Fashi. Andrew I-kang Li & Jin-Yeu Tsou, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  

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Timber architecture

• Wooden Architecture in Ganzi. By Pamela Logan, November, 1998

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City planning

• Cities/Buildings Archive, Photography by Olivier Laude. Text by Ronald G. Knapp.
• Beijing lishi wenhua mingcheng baohu guihui. 北京历史文化名城保护规划 (全文)
• Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning . 北京市规划委员会
• Beijing siheyuan yu hutong. 北京四合院与胡同
• Couplets of Beijing's Siheyuan. Lin Xianghuai.
• Huizhou architecture
• Cities, Towns and Architecture in China: Kwangsi / Zhuangzu Province, Hainan Province, Zhejiang / Chekiang Province, Anhwei / Anhui Province, Beijing / Peking Municipality, Great Wall, Shensi / Shaanxi Province, Fukien / Fujian Province, Hong Kong, Kiangsu / Jiangsu Province, Jiangxi / Kiangsi Province, Kwangtung / Guangdong Province, Shanghai Municipality, Taiwan / Formosa, Hupeh / Hubei Province, Shansi / Shanxi Province, Yunnan Province, Szechwan / Sichuan Province, Tienanmen Square Protest for Democracy
• A Room of one's own: housing consumption & residential crowding in transitional urban China.
• Shanghai in images
• Shanghai Architecture
• Shanghai jianshe. 上海建设
• Suzhoushi jianshe xinxiwang. 苏州市建设信息网
• Taiwan Memory Digital Photo Museum 台湾老照片数位博物馆
• Urban China Research Network
• Xi'an - the Ancient Capital
• Xi'an guoji zaixian. 西安国际在线
• Xitong - historic town of China.西塘古镇
• Zhongguo cheng shi wang 中国城市网

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Palace

• Bi shu shan zhuang 避暑山庄
• The Digital Museum 故宫博物院
• Displaying the Forbidden : Images of China's Imperial Palaces
• The Forbidden City 紫禁城宫殿
• Shenyang Gugong (Shenyang Palace Museum) 渖阳故宫
• The Summer Palace 颐和园
• Zhongguo gong dian jian zhu. 中国宫殿建筑

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Tomb architecture

• Bei Song huang ling 北宋皇陵
• Chengdu yongling bowuguan. 成都永陵博物馆. (Use IE as browser)
• Guan lin. 关林
• Handai muzang yu wenhua. 汉代墓葬与文化.
• Hemudu Site Museum.河姆都遗址博物馆
• Ming Qing Tombs 明清皇家陵寝
• The Ming Tombs
• Museum of Qin Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses.
• The Museum of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses. 秦始皇兵马甬博物馆.

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Gardens

• Beijing Institute of Landscape And Traditional Architectural Design And Research 北京市古建园林设计院
• Chinese gardens
• Chinese gardens
• Chinese gardens: the design and purpose of a Chinese garden.
• The Classical Gardens of China
• Environmental Aesthetics and Chinese Gardens. by Dusan Pajin, Ph.D. University of Belgrade
• Gardens
• The Iconography of Gardens: Stories and Symbols
• The Lingering Garden.留园
• Some notes on Chinese gardens
• The Summer Palace 颐和园
• The Summer Palace. Museum of Chinese Gardening : a virtual tour
• Suzhou classical gardens
• Suzhou garderns 苏州园林
• Suzhou Gardens Administration Bureau. 苏州园林局
• The Humble Administrator's Garden = Zhongguo Suzhou zhuo zheng yuan 中国苏州拙政园
• Yang zhou Ge Garden. 扬州个园
• Yu Yuan : The Garden of Peace and Comfort

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Architecture drawings

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Ritual architecture

• Beigang Chao tian gong 北港朝天宫
• Chi Lin Nunery 志莲静苑
• Palpung Architecture Project. A Chronicle of Restoration.
• Multimedia Comparative Studies of Traditional Chinese Temples
• The Temple of Heaven (English)
• [The Temple of Heaven] Altar of Heaven Pavilion of Annual Prayers (Chi Nien Tien), Beijing, China.

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Education

• Konglin 孔林
• Mengfu 孟府
• Shanxia huiguan. 山陕会馆
• Taipei Confucius Temple 台北市孔庙建筑艺术

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Professional institutions

• Architecture, CUHK. and Architecture Library, CHUK
• Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong
• Architectural Institute of the Republic of China 中华民国建筑学会
• College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Tongji University. 同济大学建筑与城市规划学院
• Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University 国立台湾大学建筑与城乡建设研究所
• Ministry of Construction, PRC. 中华人民共和国建设部
• School of Architecture, Tsinghua University. 清华大学建筑学院

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Real estate

• Beijing Real Estate Trade Center 北京市房地产交易中心
• Estate-China.com 中国房地产咨询网
• NJhouse 南京市房地产网站
• Shanghai Home 上海住房信息网
• Sou fun 搜房网
• Zhongguo fang di chang xin xi wang 中国房地产信息网

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Tibetan architecture

• Conserving Tibetan Art and Architecture
• Tibetan Architecture Documentation Centre (TADC)

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Other links

• Academic Exchanges on Conservation of China 中国文物保护学术交流网
• 北京考古书店
• Classical Chinese Furniture
• Great Wall of China. From Photovalet.
• Longmen Grottoes.
• The National Palace Museum (Taiwan)
• Zhong yan yan jiu yuan. Li shi yu yan yan jiu suo. Wen wu tu xiang shi. 中央研究院历史语言研究所文物图像室, Zi liao jian suo xi tong 资料检索系统
• Zhongguo jianzhu gongyeh chubanshe. 中国建筑工业出版社

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