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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Manchester
The Lives of Chinese Objects: Buddhism, Imperialism and Display
This monograph (120,000 words) adds significantly to a literature analysing the changing representations of Chinese objects in Western museums. It necessitated extensive archival research over a four-year period in Britain (British Library, Public Record Office, Royal Commission, Crystal Palace Foundation, National Art Library, London Metropolitan Archive, Westminster City Archive, Bromley Library, Staffordshire Regiment Museum, Manchester Central Library, Manchester Art Gallery, Liverpool Record Office, National Museums Liverpool) and in China (Ningbo, Putuo, Dinghai, Shanghai, Zhenjiang, Nanjing, Taipei). Arguments are underpinned by a systematic analysis of primary data and secondary literature (primarily anthropological, museological, historical and art historical).
