The Lives of Chinese Objects : Buddhism, Imperialism and Display

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

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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Main Author: Tythacott, Louise (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2011.
Series:Museums and collections ; vol. 3.
Subjects:
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 > Sculpture & Installation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Antiquities
Bronze sculpture
Buddhist sculpture
Ceremonial objects
Cultural property > Repatriation
Ethnological museums and collections
Museum exhibits
Bronzestatue
Buddhismus
Putuo Shan Island (China) > Antiquities.
China
China > Putuo Shan Island
England > Liverpool
Putuo Shan
History
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