About the Author

As a graduate from Qinghua University in 1960, Guo Daiheng was a student of Professor Liang Sicheng. She is now a professor and PhD tutor of Qinghua University, the first-grade national registered architect, and concurrently the director of Beijing Old Summer Palace Research Society. She has won such awards as the First Class Award of the National Natural Science Awards and the Grand Architectural Creation Award.

She has had over 70 academic papers published in China and abroad, in addition to having completed more than 10 academic works such as The History of Ancient Chinese Architecture, Illustration of Model Houses—the Heritage and Memory of the Old Summer Palace, and The Royal Old Summer Palace under the Reign of Qianlong Emperor.