Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Historical Tradition of Writing on Architecture: From Antiquity to the Mid-Tenth Century -- Chapter 2 From the Mujing to the Yingzao Fashi: The Rise of Building Manuals and the Construction of Architectural Knowledge -- Chapter 3 The Yingzao Fashi: The Making of Widespread Legitimated Building Knowledge -- Chapter 4 The Yingzao Fashi Architectural Terminology (I) -- Bracketing Likened to Flowers, Branches, and Foliage: Architectural Metaphors and Conceptualization in Tenth to Twelfth Century China -- Chapter 5 The Yingzao Fashi Architectural Terminology (II): The Interplay of Literature, Arts, and Craftsmanship -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Previous Scholarship on the YZFS -- Appendix 2. Architectural Types Glossed in the Erya and in the Shiming -- Appendix 3. Structural Elements Glossed in the Erya and in the Shiming -- Appendix 4. Entries on Architecture in the Taiping Yulan -- Appendix 5. Quotations of Classical Texts for Gong in the Erya Shu, the YZFS, and the Taiping Yulan -- Appendix 6. Architectural Terms in the Terminology Section of the YZFS as Compared with the Taiping Yulan and the Yiwen Leiju -- Appendix 7. Classics and Historical Sources Cited in the YZFS -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.