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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Dong, 1967- author.

Series:

Asia/Pacific/perspectives.

Asia/Pacific/perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Longmen Caves (China).

Cultural property--Protection--China--Longmen Caves.

Cultural property.

Cultural property--Protection--Social aspects.

Culture and globalization.

Civilization--Chinese influences.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 295 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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 Sirén (1879-1966)

Blighted Beauty: Cultural Heritage Law in Early-Twentieth-Century China

UNESCO's Longmen and Chinese Urbanization: Better City, Better Life?

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-5381-4112-4