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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Museums and Collections ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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