
Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity in China - Paperback
Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity in China - Paperback
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by Dong Wang (Author)
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.
Author Biography
Dong Wang is distinguished professor of history and director of the Wellington Koo Institute at Shanghai University since 2016, a Chatham House member, and a research associate at the Fairbank Center of Harvard University since 2002. Her books include The United States and China: A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present.



















