{"product_id":"chinese-pagodas-on-the-world-stage","title":"Chinese Pagodas on the World Stage: Models from the Tushanwan Orphanage, 1915","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Ma\u003c\/strong\u003e, assistant professor at Louisiana State University, specialises in artistic exchanges between China and the world. He previously wrote on the Tushanwan pagoda models in A Collection of Pagodas (2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKevin K.M. Lam\u003c\/strong\u003e is senior curator of Chinese art at the Asian Civilisations Museum. In addition to this book, he organised the exhibition Pagoda Odyssey, 1915: From Shanghai to San Francisco. He previously worked as a curator at the Hong Kong Palace Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Alkem","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49369981452585,"sku":"9789819408740","price":41.28,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/files\/9789819408740.webp?v=1728730168","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/chinese-pagodas-on-the-world-stage","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}