9789819408740 (1 Ergebnisse)
Verlag: Singapore, Asian Civilisations Museum, 2024
- Softcover
Anbieter: Joseph Burridge Books, Dagenham, Vereinigtes KönigreichJoseph Burridge Books
Verkäufer/-in kontaktierenVerkäufer/-in mit 5 SternenZustand: Neu
EUR 150,26
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Soft cover. Zustand: New. Size: 285mm x 200mm. This book tells the remarkable tale of a set of 84 model pagodas made at the Tushanwan Orphanage in Shanghai. An extraordinary combination of cultures and historical intentions, they depicted monuments of traditional Chinese culture for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, a… world s fair held in San Francisco in 1915. The models show not only Buddhist pagodas but also an Islamic minaret, feng shui literary towers, and defensive structures, in a wide variety styles and materials, dating from the Tang to the Qing. Now in the collection of the Asian Civilisations Museum, they are a vital architectural archive that preserves these structures as they stood at the turn of the twentieth century.
