Chinese houses : a pictorial tour of China's traditional dwellings /
Chen Congzhou, Pan Hongxuan, Lu Bingjie ; photographs by Jin Baoyuan.
- Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association, c2008.
- 334 p. : chiefly col. ill., col. map ; 30 cm.
Introduction -- Four-sided courtyard houses -- Huizhou houses -- Houses in the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River -- Earth buildings -- Houses inhabited by returned overseas Chinese and their relatives in Fujian and Guangdong -- Houses in Taiwan -- Houses with one main building, two wings and one screen wall & houses in the shape of a square seal -- Hanging houses -- Stilt houses -- Stone houses -- Flat-roof adobe houses -- Cave dwellings -- Yurts & heated houses -- Postscript -- Glossary -- Index -- Dynasties in Chinese history.