Chinese Vernacular Architecture & General Chinese Architecture--Web Links
Beyond
China: Asia's Old Dwellings--Web Links
Teaching
About Chinese Houses
Comments Welcome: knappr@newpaltz.edu
Other
Contact Information: Ronald G. Knapp
CHINA'S COVERED BRIDGES: ARCHITECTURE OVER WATER--2006
click each province for pdf
Zhejiang-----
Sichuan-----
Jiangxi (in progress)-----
Jiangsu-----
Guangxi-----
Gansu-----
Fujian-----
Anhui (in progress)
New Series: Spatial
Habitus: Making & Meaning in Asia's Architecture
New and Recent
Publications
Current
Projects
CHINESE
VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE
&
GENERAL CHINESE ARCHITECTURE
LINKS:
in
2010
Suggestions Of New Links To Be Added Are Welcome!
Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center-CHP
Chinese Vernacular Architecture
A Blog about Ancient and Modern Vernacular Architecture in China by Yan Wencheng
Asian Academy for Heritage Management
Herbert Offen Research Collection,Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
MA
Clan Homes in Fujian by Jens Aaberg-Jørgensen
Diaolou, Kaiping, Guangdong
Earthen Houses (Tulou), Fujian
YURTS: Living in the Round
Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images Galleries of Photo Albums & Materials Related to Photography in China & Tibet before 1949
Built Heritage in Hong Kong
Getty Conservation Institute--The China Principles
The Nianhua Gallery by James A. Flath
Taishun Covered Bridges
Websites for Individual Chinese Villages, Towns, and 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
"Geographical Approaches," "China,
North", "China, South", as well as secondary entries "Jiangxi", "Shandong",
and "Zhejiang."
"Geographical Approaches to the
Study of Folk Architecture"
"Rural Housing and Village Transformation
in Taiwan and Fujian"
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
In Paul Oliver, editor.
Encyclopedia
of Vernacular Architecture of the World
London: Cambridge University
Press, 1997.
Proceedings, International
Conference on Ethnic Architecture of the World.
Beijing: (1997): 187-192.
The China Quarterly,
147 (September 1996): 779-794.
Current Projects:
Things Chinese
Text by Ronald G. Knapp and Photographs by Michael Freeman
Tuttle Publishing 2011
The Peranakan Chinese Home
Text by Ronald G. Knapp and Photographs by A. Chester Ong
Tuttle Publishing 2011
Spatial
Habitus: Making & Meaning in Asia's Architecture
Co-edited with Xing Ruan,
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
A series published by the
University of Hawaii Press
CENTENARY VIEWS--The Ridge, The Valley--Then and Now
Utilizes 100 views of New Paltz and environs taken approximately a century ago
that are matched with rephotographed
images taken as the 21st century begins.
An essay accompanies each pair
of images in order to reflect on continuities and changes in the landscape.
Most
recent revision July 10, 2010