A Chinese vernacular architecture trip log – Diary entries from Summer 2004

These are some diary entries that I made when traveling in southwesternChina’sSichuanProvinceand Chongqingin the summer of 2004. On this three-week trip, I mainly traveled by bus over dirt roads or by boat on the Yangzi River to a dozen remote ancient villages, the oldest of which was 1400 years old. The simplicity, practicality and elegance ...