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Autore |
Tythacott Louise |
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Titolo |
The lives of Chinese objects : Buddhism, imperialism and display / / Louise Tythacott |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, c2011 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Collana |
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Museums and collections ; ; v. 3 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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 to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers' and antiquarian collections, |
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