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"Yin Yu Tang: A Living House provides a fascinating, in-depth look at Chinese domestic culture, architecture, artistry, and history, as well as their impact on individual lives, through a detailed exploration of this house-which has been moved and rebuilt at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Founded in 1799, the Peabody Essex Museum is the country's oldest continually operating museum. The New York Times has called it ""a cross-cultural marvel"". Yin Yu Tang will be a permanent installation at the Museum, and it will play an important part Museum programs and promotions."

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Oh, if a house could talk Thanks to the Peabody Essex Museum and this book, <i>Yin Yu Tang</i> is speaking volumes about its fascinating two hundred-year history. As a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, I've gotten to do some amazing stories, but it isn't often one completely captivates me the way this one did. The story of Yin Yu Tang, the house that left home, is magical. <b>Martha Teichner, <i>CBS News</i></b>

This book is recommended...for the Chinese history and culture sections of both public and academic libraries. --Library Journal If only walls could talk? Well, Yin Yu Tang's did, and what a story they have to tell. --Asian Review of Books The complex tale of Yin Yu Tang's salvation, careful dismantling, painstaking reconstruction and authentic refurnishing at the New England institution is alluded to in a brief epilogue. But it is the profoundly moving saga of the Huang family, generations of whom lived and died in Yin Yu Tang, that raises this above a routine preservation success story. Their touching and uplifting stories, told in the first person through letters, diaries and interviews, confirm how the psychic relationship between house and home is by far the most elemental function of architecture. --The New York Times When architecture is viewed as an art, it marks the beginning of civilization Echoed with traditional music, it is a history book written in wood and stone. --Luo Zhewen, architectural historian and author of Ancient Pagodas in China and China's Imperial Tombs and Mausoleums Oh, if a house could talk... Thanks to the Peabody Essex Museum and this book, Yin Yu Tang is speaking volumes about its fascinating two-hundred-year history. As a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, I've gotten to do some amazing stories, but it isn't often one completely captivates me the way this one did. The story of Yin Yu Tang, the house that left home, is magical. --Martha Teichner, CBS News

Oh, if a house could talk... Thanks to the Peabody Essex Museum and this book, Yin Yu Tang is speaking volumes about its fascinating two hundred-year history. As a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, I've gotten to do some amazing stories, but it isn't often one completely captivates me the way this one did. The story of Yin Yu Tang, the house that left home, is magical. --Martha Teichner, CBS News

Oh, if a house could talk... Thanks to the Peabody Essex Museum and this book, Yin Yu Tang is speaking volumes about its fascinating two hundred-year history. As a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, I've gotten to do some amazing stories, but it isn't often one completely captivates me the way this one did. The story of Yin Yu Tang, the house that left home, is magical. --Martha Teichner, CBS News

Oh, if a house could talk Thanks to the Peabody Essex Museum and this book, <i>Yin Yu Tang</i> is speaking volumes about its fascinating two hundred-year history. As a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, I've gotten to do some amazing st

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Nancy Berliner is currently the Wu Tung Curator of Chinese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She previously held the position of curator of Chinese art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, where she spearheaded and curated the Yin Yu Tang house project. She also serves as a consultant to the World Monuments Fund on the Forbidden City's Qianlong Garden conservation project. She has lectured throughout the world including at Harvard University, Dartmouth College, University of California at Berkeley, Asia Society, La Sorbonne in Paris, Tel Aviv University, Palace Museum and World Art Museum in Beijing. She has written for the New York Times, Asian Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Asian Art, and Orientations magazines.

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