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1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) : illustrations |
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Museums and Collections, vol. 3 |
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Museums and collections ; vol. 3.
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| Contents |
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 |
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CHAPTER 7: Objects of Curation and Conservation: Liverpool Museum, 1996-2005Future Lives: Liverpool or China; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bronze sculpture -- China -- Putuo Shan Island -- History
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Buddhist sculpture -- China -- Putuo Shan Island -- History
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Ceremonial objects -- China -- Putuo Shan Island -- History
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Cultural property -- Repatriation -- China
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Ethnological museums and collections -- England -- Liverpool
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Museum exhibits -- England -- Liverpool
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ART -- Sculpture & Installation.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Antiquities
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Bronze sculpture
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Buddhist sculpture
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Ceremonial objects
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Cultural property -- Repatriation
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Ethnological museums and collections
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Museum exhibits
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Bronzestatue
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Buddhismus
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| SUBJECT |
Putuo Shan Island (China) -- Antiquities
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China
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China -- Putuo Shan Island
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England -- Liverpool
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Putuo Shan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780857452399 |
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0857452398 |
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