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



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Autore: Tythacott Louise Visualizza persona
Titolo: The lives of Chinese objects [[electronic resource] ] : Buddhism, imperialism and display / / Louise Tythacott Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
Disciplina: 730.951
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Putuo Shan Island (China) Antiquities
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
Titolo autorizzato: The lives of Chinese objects  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-85745-239-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781217803321
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Serie: Museums and collections ; ; v. 3.