The Lives of Chinese Objects : Buddhism, Imperialism and Display

This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo – China’s most important pilgrimage island – to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a...
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Gespeichert in:
Autor*in:

Tythacott, Louise [verfasserIn]

Format:

E-Book

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

New York Oxford: Berghahn Books ; 2011

©2011

Rechteinformationen:

Restricted Access

Schlagwörter:

Bronze sculpture, History, China, Putuo Shan Island

Buddhist sculpture, History, China, Putuo Shan Island

Ceremonial objects, History, China, Putuo Shan Island

Cultural property, Repatriation, China

Ethnological museums and collections, England, Liverpool

Museum exhibits, England, Liverpool

ART / Museum Studies

Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource (288 p.)

Reihe:

Museums and Collections ; 3

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ISBN:

978-0-85745-239-9

DOI / URN:

10.1515/9780857452399

Katalog-ID:

1822468841

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