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Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage
When Antiquity Met Modernity in China
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2020
Summary
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.
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2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-4110-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-5381-4112-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
300
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List of Figures No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 32
Chapter 1 No access Pages 33 - 64
Chapter 2 No access Pages 65 - 90
Chapter 3 No access Pages 91 - 114
Chapter 4 No access Pages 115 - 138
Chapter 5 No access Pages 139 - 164
Chapter 6 No access Pages 165 - 200
Chapter 7 No access Pages 201 - 220
Conclusion No access Pages 221 - 226
Appendix No access Pages 227 - 230
Glossary No access Pages 231 - 236
Bibliography No access Pages 237 - 284
Index No access Pages 285 - 294
About the Author No access Pages 295 - 296
Asia/Pacific/Perspectives No access Pages 297 - 300
