Pagodas, however, appeared relatively late in China. A Chinese term for pagoda did not exist until the first century. The reason is that this new form of architecture was introduced to China only ...

The later celebrated Chinese architect Liang Sicheng praised the design of the pagoda as having musical rhythm and as being a masterpiece of ancient architectural design.

all in the Chinese style. Horace Walpole, visiting the following year, noted the Dowager Princess had begun ‘a very high tower in the garden built after the model of the towers of Pekin, Nanking etc’.

Why? Where’s OSHA when you need them?” In the middle of France, there is a seven-story “Chinese” pagoda built in 1775 at the height of French fascination with Chinese culture. One can ...