LEADER 03626nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910781217803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-85745-239-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780857452399 035 $a(CKB)2550000000039845 035 $a(EBL)735325 035 $a(OCoLC)741492977 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000538629 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12193368 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538629 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10559951 035 $a(PQKB)10064212 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC735325 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL735325 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10482311 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL536817 035 $a(DE-B1597)636525 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780857452399 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000039845 100 $a20110425d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe lives of Chinese objects$b[electronic resource] $eBuddhism, imperialism and display /$fLouise Tythacott 210 $aNew York $cBerghahn Books$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 225 1 $aMuseums and collections ;$vv. 3 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-85745-238-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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 327 $aCHAPTER 7: Objects of Curation and Conservation: Liverpool Museum, 1996-2005Future Lives: Liverpool or China; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThis is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo - China's most important pilgrimage island - to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers' and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverpool Museum. Here they were re-conceptualized as specimens of the 'Mongolian race' and, later, as examples of Oriental art. The statues escaped the bom 410 0$aMuseums and collections ;$vv. 3. 606 $aBuddhist sculpture$zChina$zPutuo Shan Island$xHistory 606 $aBronze sculpture$zChina$zPutuo Shan Island$xHistory 606 $aCeremonial objects$zChina$zPutuo Shan Island$xHistory 606 $aEthnological museums and collections$zEngland$zLiverpool 606 $aMuseum exhibits$zEngland$zLiverpool 606 $aCultural property$xRepatriation$zChina 607 $aPutuo Shan Island (China)$xAntiquities 615 0$aBuddhist sculpture$xHistory. 615 0$aBronze sculpture$xHistory. 615 0$aCeremonial objects$xHistory. 615 0$aEthnological museums and collections 615 0$aMuseum exhibits 615 0$aCultural property$xRepatriation 676 $a730.951 700 $aTythacott$b Louise$01482703 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781217803321 996 $aThe lives of Chinese objects$93757324 997 $aUNINA