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		<title>Video of a house building in what appears to be Lijiang</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<title>Bibliography_Part V: Other Sources</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bibliographies in Print
陈春生/ Chen Chunsheng. 中国古建筑文献指南 1900-1990/ Sources on Traditional Chinese Architecture 1900 – 1990. 北京: 科学出版社, 2000.
Vance, Mary A.  Gardens of China: books in English. Monticello, Ill.: Vance Bibliographies, 1980.
&#8212;-,  Chinoiseries: a bibliography. Monticello, Ill.: Vance Bibliographies, [1985]
Doumato, Lamia. Chinese architecture: a bibliography. Monticello, Ill.: Vance Bibliographies, [1985] 
Online Sources
China’s Vernacular Architecture: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Ai Weiwei &#8216;Literally&#8217; Smashes China&#8217;s Traditions in Art and Architecture&#8221; &#8211; Really?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ai Weiwei, a contemporary Chinese artist, was widely reported to “literally” destroy China’s tradition in art in his 1995 act of dropping a Han Dynasty (206 BCE &#8211; 220 CE) urn and breaking it.  An article calls this performance “an iconoclastic act”. Ai was quoted as saying that this gesture is “powerful only because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bibliography_Part IV: Historic Preservation/ Heritage Conservation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luo, Zhewen. Luo Zhewen lishi wenhua mingcheng yu gujianzhu baohu wenji/ 罗哲文历史文化名城与古建筑保护文集 [Essays on Preservation of Historic Cities and Ancient Architecture]
Fang, Ke. Contemporary Redevelopment in the Inner City of Beijing: Survey, Analysis and Investigation, Beijing: Zhongguo jianzhu gongye chubanshe, 2000. 
Wu, Liangyong. Rehabilitating the Old City of Beijing: a Project in the Ju’er Hutong Neighborhood, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bibliography_ Part III: Chinese Vernacular Architecture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[中国美术分类全集•中国建筑艺术全集 (以下四册) [Complete Categories of Chinese Art • Art of Chinese Architecture] (with the following four volumes)
侯幼彬 . 宅第建筑（一）（北方汉族）北京：中国建筑工业出版社. 1999. ISBN: 7-112-03803-0  
陆元鼎. 宅第建筑（二）（南方汉族）北京：中国建筑工业出版社. 1999. ISBN: 7-112-03804-9  
杨谷生. 宅第建筑（三）（北方少数民族）北京：中国建筑工业出版社. 2003. ISBN: 7-112-04793-5
王翠兰. 宅第建筑（四）（南方少数民族）北京：中国建筑工业出版社. 1999. ISBN: 7-112-03805-7
中国美术全集•建筑艺术编（袖珍本）: 民居建筑 [Complete Works of Chinese Art• Art of Architecture: Vernacular Architecture (pocket edition)] 北京: 中国建筑工业出版社, 2004. ISBN: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bibliography_Part I: &#8220;Grammar Books&#8221; on Chinese Architecture, Dictionaries and more</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What follows is far from being a completed bibliography, content- or style-wise. But I&#8217;m getting increasingly anxious to share whatever I have gathered so far with everyone. Please forgive me for (especially) the sloppy style; I found most of these titles online, and they come in all sort of styles. As for the content, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Chinese Vernacular Architecture Bibliography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently putting together a bibliography on Chinese vernacular architecture, in Chinese and English, since I don&#8217;t read another language. While there seems to be a lot of books available in China about Chinese vernacular architecture: the ubiquitous travel guides about  &#8220;famous&#8221; villages and towns, which have been isolated in geography and whose architecture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disappearing vernacular architecture &#8211; Beijing Hutongs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I was back in Beijing for about six weeks this summer, and things were getting worse. Whole neighborhoods of hutongs (traditional Beijing alleyways) are still being demolished, ancient residences gone, while new building projects are under way. Below are some pictures I took outside of the Qianmen area (almost right in the heart of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Suzhou&#8217;s Vernacular Architecture &#8211; Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his preservation work on the city of Suzhou, Professor Ruan sets out by providing a historic contextualization of the city, by examining its current economic, political, and social status, and the character of the city as determined by its historic and cultural significance in relation to its architectural heritage. In this case, the canal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Suzhou&#8217;s Vernacular Architecture &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wencheng Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city of Suzhou has a history stretching back more than 2,500 years, serving as the capital city of the Wu Kingdom as early as the Spring and Autumn Period (722- 481 B.C.E.) in 514 B.C.E.  It is situated on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Lake Tai [...]]]></description>
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