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Cabos, Marine (2018) 'Creating Heritage and the Mission Paul Pelliot: Early photographs of Dunhuang and their legacy.' The Chinese Historical Review, 25 (2). pp. 97-117.

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Abstract

This article addresses the impact of photographs produced during campaigns of exploration in Northwest China during the transition period between the last decades of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. I propose to focus on an area that had experienced intense scrutiny, namely the oasis of Dunhuang. By scrutinizing the extensive photographic archive created during the French Mission Paul Pelliot (1906–08), this paper underlines the emergence of preservation and archaeological concerns, and the growing place of photography in academic disciplines like archaeology, while highlighting how these images interacted with local and international cultures. Addressing these questions is intended to help delineate the photographs’ visual grammar and to gauge their effect in (re)constituting China’s national heritage.

Item Type: Journal Article
Keywords: late imperial China, archaeology, cultural heritage, visual narrative, Paul Pelliot, Charles Nouette, Dunhuang
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > School of Arts > Department of the History of Art & Archaeology
ISSN: 1547402X
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1080/1547402X.2018.1522817
Date Deposited: 17 Aug 2018 08:20
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/25544

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