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

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.

About the author

Dong Wang is distinguished university professor of history and founding executive director of the new Wellington Koo Institute for Modern China in World History at Shanghai University, as well as research associate at the Fairbank Center of Harvard University. Her books include The United States and China: A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Dong Wang, Wang Dong
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781538141106
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4110-6
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / China, Asian History, Longmen;stone Buddha;UNESCO;World Heritage Site