RT Book
T1 The lives of Chinese objects: Buddhism, imperialism and display
T2 Museums and collections
A1 Tythacott, Louise
LA English
PP New York
PB Berghahn Books
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/687325951
AB 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
OP 275
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN NB1912.B83
SN 9780857452382
K1 Museum exhibits : England : Liverpool
K1 Cultural property : Repatriation : China
K1 Bronze sculpture : China : Putuo Shan Island : History
K1 Buddhist sculpture : China : Putuo Shan Island : History
K1 Ethnological museums and collections : England : Liverpool
K1 Ceremonial objects : China : Putuo Shan Island : History
K1 Buddhist sculpture--China--Putuo Shan Island--History
K1 Bronze sculpture, Chinese--China--Putuo Shan Island--History
K1 Ceremonial objects--China--Putuo Shan Island--History
K1 Ethnological museums and collections--England--Liverpool
K1 Museum exhibits--England--Liverpool
K1 Cultural property--Repatriation--China
K1 Putuo Shan Island (China)--Antiquities
K1 Bronze sculpture ; China ; Putuo Shan Island ; History
K1 Buddhist sculpture ; China ; Putuo Shan Island ; History
K1 Ceremonial objects ; China ; Putuo Shan Island ; History
K1 Cultural property ; Repatriation ; China
K1 Ethnological museums and collections ; England ; Liverpool
K1 Museum exhibits ; England ; Liverpool
K1 Putuo Shan Island (China) ; Antiquities
K1 Electronic books
K1 Putuo Shan Island (China) : Antiquities