 Several years later Li Jie ( <unk> ; 1065 – <unk> ) published Yingzao Fashi ( " <unk> on Architectural Methods " or " State Building Standards " ) . Although similar books came before it , such as <unk> <unk> ( " National Building Law " ) of the early Tang dynasty ( 618 – 907 ) , Li 's book is the earliest technical manual on Chinese architecture to have survived in full . 
