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• Frommer's CHINA Best Up-and-Coming Destinations

• ArchNet Images of Buildings All Over the World
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• Chinese, Japanese and Indian Architecture Travel since 1993
• Construction of a Yurt
• Explore Korea: A Visit to Grandfather's House--Seattle Art Museum (including materials for teachers & kids)

• Gassho-style Farmhouses in Japan
• Great Buildings Online--3-D Models
• greenhomebuilding.com
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• Internet Sources in Architecture and Architectural History
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• Korean Folk Villages--Korea's Traditional Dwellings
• Museum Meiji-Mura--Japan
• Taman Mini--Indonesia
• Teahouse Project-Cornell University
• The Japanese House:  Or, why the Western architect has difficulties to understand it by Nold Egenter
• Traditional Korean Houses

Office: JFT 906
JFT (Jacobson Faculty Tower)  (Click here for a printable map of campus)

Note New Office Address and New Mailing Address!
Mailing Address:
Ronald G. Knapp
c/o Department of History JFT 906
SUNY New Paltz
New Paltz, NY 12561

Phone:  845-257-2996
 FAX:    845-257-2735
E-mail: knappr@newpaltz.edu

CHINESE HOUSES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA
The Eclectic Architecture of Sojourners and Settlers

Text by Ronald G. Knapp, Photographs by A. Chester Ong, and Foreword by Wang Gungwu
Tuttle Publishing  Fall 2010


THIS IS CHINA
The First 5,000 Years

Editors: Haiwang Yuan, Ronald Knapp, Margot Landman, Gregory Veeck
Berkshire Publishing  Spring 2010


CHINESE BRIDGES
Living Architecture from China's Past

Text by Ronald G. Knapp, Photographs by A. Chester Ong, and Foreword by Peter Bol
Tuttle Publishing  Spring 2008

CHINA:
People-Place-Culture-History
Co-author
with Alison Bailey, Peter-Neville Hadley, J.A.G. Roberts, & Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
DK Publishing, Fall 2007

"The Shaping of Taiwan's Landscapes"
Chapter in Murray A. Rubinstein, editor
Taiwan:
A New History, Expanded Edition
M.E. Sharpe, 2006

CHINESE HOUSES:
The Architectural Heritage of a Nation
A Coffeetable-type Book Featuring 'My Favorite' 20 Chinese Dwellings
Text by Ronald G. Knapp, Photographs by A. Chester Ong, and Foreword by Jonathan Spence
Tuttle Publishing  Fall 2005

HOUSE HOME FAMILY:
Living & Being Chinese
Ronald G. Knapp and Kai-Yin Lo, Co-Editors
University of Hawaii Press in cooperation with China Institute, 2005

FROM SILK TO OIL: Cross-Cultural Connections along the Silk Roads
Full Volume In Color Can Be Downloaded Free As A PDF Document By Clicking Above
Martin Amster and Nancy Jervis, Co-editors; Ronald G. Knapp, Managing Editor
China Institute, 2005

ASIA'S OLD DWELLINGS:
Tradition, Resilience, and Change
(editor and contributor)
Hong Kong and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

China's Old Dwellings
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000.
 

CHINA'S WALLED CITIES
Hong Kong and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
 

"At Home in China: Domain of Propriety, Repository of Heritage"
Chapter in Kai-yin Lo and Puay-peng Ho, editors.
Living Heritage:
Vernacular Environment in China
Hong Kong: Yuanmingtang, 1999.
 

China's Living Houses:
Folk Beliefs, Symbols, And Household Ornamentation
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999

"Chinese Villages as Didactic Texts"
Chapter in Wen-hsin Yeh, editor.
Landscape, Culture, and Power in Chinese Society
Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1998.
 

Guest Editor, "Teaching the Geography of Asia"
Special issue of the journal EDUCATION ABOUT ASIA, Spring 1998
 

"Geographical Approaches," "China, North", "China, South", as well as secondary entries "Jiangxi", "Shandong", and "Zhejiang."
In Paul Oliver, editor.
Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World
London: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

"Geographical Approaches to the Study of Folk Architecture"
Proceedings, International Conference on Ethnic Architecture of the World.
Beijing: (1997): 187-192.

"Rural Housing and Village Transformation in Taiwan and Fujian"
The China Quarterly, 147 (September 1996): 779-794.