The Grand Documentation

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The Grand Documentation is written by Eduard Kögel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110401347 (ISBN 10) and 9783110401349 (ISBN 13).

Ernst Boerschmann was the most influential foreign architectural researcher in China in the first half of the twentieth century. This book concerns his three-year research expedition through the Chinese Empire (1906–1909). He was the first Westerner to systematically document China’s religious architecture, returning from his travels with thousands of photographs, sketches, and architectural surveys. His six major publications leading up to 1931, described here alongside the reactions they caused, were milestones on the path to formal study of Chinese architectural history, long before Chinese academics themselves began to take interest in the subject in the 1930s.