Longmen's stone Buddhas and cultural heritage : when antiquity met modernity in China
by
Wang, Dong, 1967- author.
Title
:
Longmen's stone Buddhas and cultural heritage : when antiquity met modernity in China
Asia/Pacific/perspectives
Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
Author
:
Wang, Dong, 1967- author.
ISBN
:
9781538141106
9781538141113
Personal Author
:
Wang, Dong, 1967- author.
Physical Description
:
xiv, 295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Series
:
Asia/Pacific/perspectives
Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
Contents
:
How Longmen was remembered, not remembered and misremembered as an ancient site in premodern China -- Shaping Chinese modern identity : antiquities in public opinion at the turn of the twentieth century -- Voices of silence : european discovery of Longmen -- "An influence of the souls of these stone saints" : early American and Japanese recognition, between universalism and nationalism -- Longmen and Osvald Sirén (1879-1966) -- Blighted beauty : cultural heritage law in early-twentieth-century China -- UNESCO's Longmen and Chinese urbanization : better city, better life?
Abstract
:
"Based on original research and empirical sources in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, and Swedish, this book refracts modern and contemporary China through the lens of an important historical site, Luoyang's Longmen caves, laden with Chinese as well as international political and cultural symbolism"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Term
:
Cultural property -- Protection -- China -- Longmen Caves.
Cultural property -- Protection -- Social aspects.
Culture and globalization.
Civilization -- Chinese influences.
Cultural property -- Protection.
International relations.
Geographic Term
:
Longmen Caves (China)
China -- Relations.
China.
China -- Longmen Caves.
Bibliographical References
:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805
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npmlib 10905814 DS797.44.L84 W36 yh
| Library | Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Copy | Material Type | Status |
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| NPM Library | DS797.44.L84 W36 2020 | 10905814 | 1 | B | *二館西文書一區 |