人文中国：中国民居（英文版）[ChineseVernacularDwellings]

内容简介

“人文中国书系”共30个分册，书系旨在通过介绍中国传统文化中一些有代表性的领域或专题，展现中国文化的总体面貌。书系的作者均为相关领域的专家学者，他们广博的历史文化知识以及深入浅出的叙述方法，使读者可以通过轻松愉悦的阅读，领略丰富多彩、博大精深的中国文化。该系列丛书设计精美，内容丰富，出版以来受到国外读者欢迎，版权输出到多个国家，并被收入“剑桥文库”。

本书以生活在传统民居中的人的生活习俗、行为特征与空间模式的互动来选择较有代表性、覆盖面较广的若干聚落予以介绍。书中记述了各类传统民居的成因、建筑特色以及流传价值等内容。

The book of life of people living in traditional houses customs, behavior characteristics and spatial patterns of interaction to select the more representative, covering the surface of a wider number of settlements to be introduced. The book describes the causes of various types of traditional houses, architectural features, as well as spread value.

China has a vast territory and an extremely long history with the natural andcultural environment differing from region to region. Therefore thediversification of Chinese vernacular dwelling is rarely seen in the architecturalhistory of the world. This book has chosen some settlements which arerepresentative and widely spread to introduce basing on the interaction of theliving customs, action characteristics and the space mode of people who inhabitthe traditional vernacular dwellings.Chinese vernacular dwelling is various and colorful. Both the profound andsteady northern vernacular dwellings and the elegant and pretty southernvernacular dwellings contain the philosophy that "human beings should be inharmony with nature" and the ethic views such as superiority and inferiority insocial life, the order of elders and the young, the different treatment towardsmen and women, the differentiation between people in and out of a clan. Thisbook has described the origin, architectural characteristics and the passing-down value of the Chinese traditional vernacular dwellings in a popular waybut with the professional accuracy. This book is dotted with related historicallegends and folklores. Thus, a vivid scroll of Chinese vernacular dwelling wasclearly drawn.

作者简介

Shan Deqi, born in 1937 in Anhui Province,graduated from the Civil Engineering and Archi-tecture Department of Tsinghua University in1960 and majored in architecture. He was for-merly Director of "the Teaching and ResearchSection for Architectural Design" of the Architec-ture Department of Tsinghua University, and theVice-President of the School of Architecture,Tsinghua University. At present, he is the Pro-fessor at the School of Architecture of TsinghuaUniversity as well as tutor of doctoral graduatestudents, Member of the Academic Committee,and Vice Director of the Academic Degree Com-mittee.Shan Deqi has published monographs includingIllustrations of Chinese Traditional VernacularDwelling, etc.