Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity in China by Wang, Dong

Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity in China (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781538141106)

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Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity in China by Wang, Dong

Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity in China

$111.00
Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity in China by Wang, Dong

Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity in China

$111.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Dong Wang
ISBN-10: 1538141108
ISBN-13: 9781538141106
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 06/04/2020
Pages: 314
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
By Dong Wang
By Dong Wang
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Dong Wang is distinguished professor of history and director of the Wellington Koo Institute at Shanghai University since 2016, a Chatham House member, and a research associate at the Fairbank Center of Harvard University since 2002. Her books include The United States and China: A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present.

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