中國民居（英文版）

　　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.

　　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.