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The Lives of Chinese ObjectsBuddhism, Imperialism and Display
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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 starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers…

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9780857452399
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1 online resource (288 pages)
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