Format:
xiv, 295 Seiten
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Karten
ISBN:
9781538141113
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9781538141106
Series Statement:
Asia/Pacific/perspectives
Content:
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?
Content:
"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 cave carvings, laden with Chinese as well as international political and cultural symbolism"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781538141120
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Longmen's stone buddhas and cultural heritage Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2020
Language:
English
Keywords:
China
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Buddha v563-v483
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