Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms: Architecture

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The 'Sancai Tuhui' (Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms) is a massive Ming dynasty encyclopedia consisting of 106 chapters. While the 'Gongshi' (Architecture/Palaces and Houses) section is a foundational source for Chinese architectural history and its diagrams are frequently reproduced and analyzed in scholarly works (such as those by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt and Joseph Needham), no complete English translation of this specific section or the encyclopedia as a whole has been published. Search results identified studies of other sections (e.g., 'Foreign Peoples') and general scholarly references, but no translation of the 'Architecture' text itself.

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