Through the Moon Gate.Guide to China's Historic Monuments

Hardback. First Edition. Small tear to top edge of front D/J. It is easy to be overawed by the scale of China: the distances, its huge population, the length of its recorded history, the diversity of its people and their cultures. Guidebooks become unmanageably large or uselessly superficial, while picture books either lack any coherent theme or are too focused to encapsulate the experience of China. This book describes the hundred most important monuments of China. They have been selected so as to show the development of Chinese art and architecture over the millennia, and to do so in a way which also reflects both - indigenous and imported - and the immense geographical scope of Chinese civilization. Gardens and temples, mausolea and palaces, caves and graves, bridges and pagodas - this book provides a spectacular survey, equally suitable for the real visitor or the armchair traveller. Illustrated. 313 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). …