Compensations of Plunder - How China Lost Its Treasures

Informationen zum Autor Justin M. Jacobs is associate professor of history at American University. He is the author of Indiana Jones in History and Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State . He also serves as editor of The Silk Road journal and hosts Beyond Huaxia , a podcast on East Asian history. Klappentext "From the early 1890s to World War I, countless manuscripts and artworks were taken from northwestern China and brought to museums and libraries abroad, thanks not only to opportunistic explorers but also the Chinese officials who hosted them. In The Compensations of Plunder, historian Justin M. Jacobs contends that trans-imperial upper-class loyalties explain this surprising cooperation between Western archaeologists and local elites who gave them access to local treasures. As the imperial age drew to a close, the antiquities themselves went from being "diplomatic capital" that was traded among a cosmopolitan elite to disputed icons of the emerging nation-state. Based on a wealth of sources in several languages, Jacobs's book examines the nuanced story of-and diverse motivations behind-the antiquities trade along the Silk Road and the unlikely, fraught partnerships that made it possible"--

Product details

• Authors: Justin M Jacobs, Justin M Jacobs
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780226712017
• ISBN: 978-0-226-71201-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Silk Roads
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Asia / China, Archaeology, Asian History