Dong Wang 王棟
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication date:
June 2020
Abstract:
This thoroughly researched book provides the first comprehensive history of how a UNESCO World Heritage site on the Central China Plain, Longmen’s caves and the Buddhist statuary of Luoyang, was rediscovered in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing on original research and archival sources in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, and Swedish, as well as extensive fieldwork, Dong Wang traces the ties between cultural heritage and modernity, detailing how this historical monument has been understood from antiquity to the present. She highlights the manifold traffic and expanded contact between China and other countries as these nations were reorienting themselves in order to adapt their own cultural traditions to newly industrialized and industrializing societies. Unknown to much of the world, Longmen and its mesmerizing modern history takes readers to the heartland of China, known as “Chinese Babylon” a century ago. With remarkable depth and breadth, this book unravels both a bygone and a continuing human pursuit of artefacts—shared, spiritual, modern, and above all beautiful that have linked so many lives, Chinese and foreign.
Table of Contents:
How Longmen Was Remembered, Not Remembered and Misremembered as an Ancient Site in Premodern China
Shaping Chinese Modern Identity: Antiquities in Public Opinion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Voices of Silence: European Discovery of Longmen
"An Influence of the Souls of These Stone Saints": Early American and Japanese Recognition, between Universalism and Nationalism
Longmen and Osvald Sirén (1879-1966)
Blighted Beauty: Cultural Heritage Law in Early-Twentieth-Century China
UNESCO's Longmen and Chinese Urbanization: Better City, Better Life?
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