Liang and Lin–Now in Paperback

Liang and Lin: Partners in Exploring China's Architectural Past

Wilma Fairbank. Foreword by Jonathan Spence

256 pages | 6 x 9 | 31 illus.

Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2040-7 | $19.95 | £13.00

Liang and LinWilma Fairbank documents, from both a historical and a uniquely personal perspective, the professional and personal achievements of the first historians of Chinese architecture.

"Liang and Lin is the story of a romance and of a heroic struggle against great odds. . . . Wilma Fairbank, who is the only person . . . who could have written this story, has created an affecting portrait of the final years of an epoch when Old China faded away and New China took its place."–New York Times

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