The Lives of Chinese Objects : : Buddhism, Imperialism and Display / / Louise Tythacott.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Museums and Collections ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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