Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage

Wang, Dong

ISBN 10: 1538141116 / ISBN 13: 9781538141113

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020

Beschreibung

This thoroughly researched book provides the first comprehensive history of how a UNESCO World Heritage site on the Central China Plain, Longmen's caves and the Buddhist statuary of Luoyang, was rediscovered in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing on original research and archival sources in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, and Swedish, as well as extensive fieldwork, Dong Wang traces the ties between cultural heritage and modernity, detailing how this historical monument has been understood from antiquity to the present. She highlights the manifold traffic and expanded contact between China and other countries as these nations were reorienting themselves in order to adapt their own cultural traditions to newly industrialized and industrializing societies. Unknown to much of the world, Longmen and its mesmerizing modern history takes readers to the heartland of China, known as "Chinese Babylon" a century ago. With remarkable depth and breadth, this book unravels both a bygone and a continuing human pursuit of artefacts-shared, spiritual, modern, and above all beautiful that have linked so many lives, Chinese and foreign.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9781538141113

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1538141116
• ISBN-13: 9781538141113
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

This book offers the first history of the rediscovery of a UNESCO World Heritage site in China, Longmen’s caves and the Buddhist statuary of Luoyang. Drawing on fieldwork and archival sources, Wang traces the ties between cultural heritage and modernity, unraveling how this historical monument has been understood from antiquity to the present.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dong Wang is distinguished university professor of history and founding executive director of the new Wellington Koo Institute for Modern China in World History at Shanghai University, as well as research associate at the Fairbank Center of Harvard University. Her books include The United States and China: A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present.