The Lives of Chinese Objects : Buddhism, Imperialism and Display /

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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tythacott, Louise (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2011]
Colección:Museums and Collections ; 3
Temas:
Bronze sculpture > China > Putuo Shan Island > History.
Buddhist sculpture > China > Putuo Shan Island > History.
Ceremonial objects > China > Putuo Shan Island > History.
Cultural property > Repatriation > China.
Ethnological museums and collections > England > Liverpool.
Museum exhibits > England > Liverpool.
ART / Museum Studies.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Sacred Beings in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) Dynasties
  • 2 Trophies of War, 1844-1852
  • 3 Articles of Industry: The Great Exhibition of 1851
  • 4 Curiosities, Antiquities, Art Treasure, Commodities: 1854-1867
  • 5 Specimens of Ethnology and Race: Liverpool Museum, 1867-1929
  • 6 Objects of Art, Archaeology and Oriental Antiquity: Liverpool Museum, 1929-1996
  • 7 Objects of Curation and Conservation: Liverpool Museum, 1996-2005
  • Future Lives: Liverpool or China
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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