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Longmen's stone Buddhas and cultural heritage : when antiquity met modernity in China /

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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, Dong, 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020]
Series:Asia/Pacific/perspectives.
Subjects:
Longmen Caves (China)
Cultural property > Protection > China > Longmen Caves.
Cultural property > Protection > Social aspects.
Culture and globalization.
China > Relations.
Civilization > Chinese influences.
Table of 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 SirĂ©n (1879-1966)
  • Blighted Beauty: Cultural Heritage Law in Early-Twentieth-Century China
  • UNESCO's Longmen and Chinese Urbanization: Better City, Better Life?