Nguyen An
Nguyễn An (Chinese 阮安; 1381 - 1453), known in Chinese as Ruan An (pinyin) or Juan An (Wade-Giles), was a Ming dynasty architect and hydraulics specialist between the first and fifth decades of the 15th century. According to some sources, Born in Vietnam, he was taken as tribute to China and later became a eunuch and architect in service to the Chinese emperors. He, along with other architects, such as master designers and planners Cai Xin (蔡信), Kuai Xiang (蒯祥), Chen Gui (陳珪), and Wu Zhong (吳中), was a builder of the Forbidden City in Beijing.
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Nguyen An
- Born
- 1381
- Died
- 1453
- Nationality
- China · Ming dynasty
- Occupation
- architect
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Nguyễn An (Chinese 阮安; 1381 - 1453), known in Chinese as Ruan An (pinyin) or Juan An (Wade-Giles), was a Ming dynasty architect and hydraulics specialist between the first and fifth decades of the 15th century. According to some sources, Born in Vietnam, he was taken as tribute to China and later became a eunuch and architect in service to the Chinese emperors. He, along with other architects, such as master designers and planners Cai Xin (蔡信), Kuai Xiang (蒯祥), Chen Gui (陳珪), and Wu Zhong (吳中), was a builder of the Forbidden City in Beijing.
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Born in 1381, died in 1453.
Nguyen An (1381–1453) was a Chinese architect.
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- 1.Womack, Brantly. China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry. Cambridge University Press. 182. 2006. 0-521-85320-6.
- 2.Cambridge University Press. The Cambridge History of China. 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644 (part 1). 240–241. 1998. 0-521-24332-7.
- 3.Zhu, Jianfei. Chinese Spatial Strategies: Imperial Beijing, 1420-1911. Routledge. 28. 2004. 0-415-31883-1.
- 4.Asia-Pacific: Perspectives and the University of San Francisco. Vatican City and the Forbidden City; St. Peter's Square and Tiananmen Square: A Comparative Analysis. Page 5.
- 5.Zhu, Jianfei. Chinese Spatial Strategies: Imperial Beijing, 1420-1911. Routledge. 28. 2004. 0-415-31883-1.
- 6.Tsai, Shih-shan Henry. The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty. SUNY Press. 202. 1996. 0-7914-2687-4.
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