Review: Woven Arch Bridge: Histories of Constructional Thoughts and China’s Covered Bridges: Architecture over Water

Book Review| March 01 2024 Review: Woven Arch Bridge: Histories of Constructional Thoughts and China's Covered Bridges: Architecture over Water Liu Yan Woven Arch Bridge: Histories of Constructional Thoughts London: Routledge, 2021, 412 pp., 461 color illus. $280 (cloth), ISBN 9780367618230; $52.95 (paper), ISBN 9780367624316Ronald G. Knapp, Terry E. Miller, and Liu Jie China's Covered Bridges: Architecture over Water Shanghai: Jiaoda Art Publishing, 2020, 480 pp., 600+ illus. $65 (cloth), ISBN 9781952461026 Aurelia Campbell Aurelia Campbell Boston College Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (1): 118–121. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2024.83.1.118 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Aurelia Campbell; Review: Woven Arch Bridge: Histories of Constructional Thoughts and China's Covered Bridges: Architecture over Water. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2024; 83 (1): 118–121. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2024.83.1.118 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Two recently published English-language books on China's wooden bridges make significant contributions to our understanding of this important, yet understudied, genre of Chinese architecture.1 An estimated three thousand covered bridges still survive in China, more than anywhere else in the world. China's Covered Bridges: Architecture over Water provides an engaging and informative introduction to the most remarkable bridge types and individual examples among them. Woven Arch Bridge: Histories of Constructional Thoughts, in contrast, focuses on one subset of Chinese bridges located in a mountainous region in northern Fujian Province and southeastern Zhejiang Province, in China's southeast. Inscribed in 2009 by UNESCO as a form of intangible cultural heritage, extant woven arch bridges number only around one hundred, of which the earliest known dates to 1625. The authors of China's Covered Bridges are among the world's most seasoned experts on wooden bridges. Ronald G. Knapp, professor emeritus at State... You do not currently have access to this content.