| Description |
1 online resource (413 p.) |
| Series |
China Perspectives Ser |
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China Perspectives Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 0.1 55 BC, Gaul, in today's Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany -- 0.2 1520s, Vicenza, Italy -- 0.3 1481, Milan, Italy -- 0.4 1032, Qinzhou, China -- 0.5 1857, Taishun, Zhejiang, China -- 0.6 1870s, Enshu, Japan -- 0.7 1937, Shouning, Fujian, China -- 0.8 1898, San Francisco, USA -- 0.9 1913, San Marino, California, USA -- 0.10 1955, Wuhan, Hubei, China -- 0.11 2002, Beijing, China -- 0.12 Fade-out to darkness -- and then a title appears on the screen |
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Part I Woven arch bridges -- 1 From Caesar to Da Vinci: The woven structure's Italian root -- 1.1 Glory to Caesar! -- 1.1.1 Caesar and his Rhine Bridge -- 1.1.2 From a legend to an issue of architecture study -- 1.1.2.1 The Rhine Bridge in Caesar's legend -- 1.1.2.2 The first light from the architecture discipline -- 1.1.2.3 The first illustrator of the Rhine Bridge -- 1.1.2.4 Various Italian illustrations -- 1.1.3 Palladio's Rhine Bridge -- 1.1.3.1 I quattro libri dell'architettura -- 1.1.3.2 I Commentarii di C. Giulio Cesare -- 1.1.3.3 Feasibility of Palladio's restoration |
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1.2 Leonardo da Vinci, the genius mind -- 1.2.1 Leonardo da Vinci's study on Caesar's Rhine Bridge -- 1.2.2 The clamp bridge -- 1.2.3 The woven bridge -- 1.2.4 The woven vault -- References -- 2 A full moon in another land: The Moon Bridge in the Japanese Garden of the Huntington Library -- 2.1 A Japanese landscape in California -- 2.1.1 The Marsh family and the earliest Japanese garden in California1 -- 2.1.2 The Japanese Garden in the Huntington Library -- 2.1.3 San Francisco Drum Bridge -- 2.2 Toichiro Kawai, the Japanese carpenter -- 2.2.1 From Yokohama to Pasadena |
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2.2.2 Projects in the Huntington's Japanese garden -- 2.2.3 Life in Pasadena -- 2.3 The Moon Bridge: the art of construction -- 2.3.1 Architectural features of the Moon Bridge -- 2.3.2 The bridge of perfection -- 2.3.3 Measurement system (yardstick) -- 2.4 The Moon Bridge: construction secrets -- 2.4.1 Construction of the wooden structure -- 2.4.2 Nails -- 2.4.3 Construction process of the curved beams -- 2.5 Reconstruction of an unwritten history -- 2.5.1 The Moon Bridge in the 1920s -- 2.5.2 The reconstruction of the bridge between 1949 and 1962 -- 2.5.2.1 Arch structure -- 2.5.2.2 Handrail |
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2.5.3 Nobu T. Kawai's account of the collapse of the bridge -- 2.5.4 A collapse in 1914? A thought experiment -- 2.6 Conclusions: curriculum vitae of the Huntington Moon Bridge -- References -- 3 Searching for the Chinese wooden arch bridges -- 3.1 Discovery of the Chinese wooden arch bridges: from the Rainbow Bridge to the Min-Zhe area bridges -- 3.1.1 Discovery of the Rainbow Bridges -- 3.1.2 Historical background of the Rainbow Bridge -- 3.1.3 Discovery of wooden arch bridges in the MZ area -- 3.1.4 The traditional game of "chopstick-bridge" |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000223385 |
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1000223388 |
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