The Lives of Chinese Objects: Buddhism, Imperialism and Display

by Louise Tythacott and Tythacott Louise

This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo - China's most important pilgrimage island - to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers' and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverpool...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085745238X
• ISBN13: 9780857452382
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"