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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781217803321

Autore

Tythacott Louise

Titolo

The lives of Chinese objects [[electronic resource] ] : Buddhism, imperialism and display / / Louise Tythacott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, c2011

ISBN

0-85745-239-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Museums and collections ; ; v. 3

Disciplina

730.951

Soggetti

Buddhist sculpture - China - Putuo Shan Island - History

Bronze sculpture - China - Putuo Shan Island - History

Ceremonial objects - China - Putuo Shan Island - History

Ethnological museums and collections - England - Liverpool

Museum exhibits - England - Liverpool

Cultural property - Repatriation - China

Putuo Shan Island (China) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Lives of ChineseObjects; Museums and Collections; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1: Sacred Beings in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) Dynasties; CHAPTER 2: Trophies of War, 1844-1852; CHAPTER 3: Articles of Industry: The Great Exhibition of 1851; CHAPTER 4: Curiosities, Antiquities, Art Treasure, Commodities: 1854-1867; CHAPTER 5: Specimens of Ethnology and Race: Liverpool Museum, 1867-1929; CHAPTER 6: Objects of Art, Archaeology and Oriental Antiquity: Liverpool Museum,1929-1996

CHAPTER 7: Objects of Curation and Conservation: Liverpool Museum, 1996-2005Future Lives: Liverpool or China; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers' and antiquarian collections,



arriving in 1867 at Liverpool Museum. Here they were re-conceptualized as specimens of the 'Mongolian race' and, later, as examples of Oriental art. The statues escaped the bom