A collection of pagodas : 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco / [editors: Mee-Seen Loong, Jeffrey Hantover].
Accompanies the exhibiton: The Tushanwan Pagodas: Models from the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition held at SFO International Terminal Museum, April 04, 2015 - October 25, 2015. See SFO Museum Exhibition Page
Text chiefly in English; text of the first article in English and Chinese. William Ma's essay also in Chinese.
Catalog entries in English and Chinese.
Includes bibliographical references.

Includes reproduction of: Collection of China's pagodas : achieved by the Siccawei Catholic Mission, Industrial School, near Shanghai, to the World's Panama Pacific Exposition, 1915.

Foreword / Mee-Seen Loong -- The Tushanwan pagoda models = Tushanwan baota 土山灣寶塔 / William H. Ma 馬新躍 -- The pagoda type of Chinese architecture / D.J. Kavanagh, S.J. -- Making a Chinese architecture / Cole Roskam -- Jesuit Brothers, Christian charity and modern Chinese art / Fr. Jeremy Clarke, SJ -- San Francisco's fair : a last hurrah / Neil Harris -- The pagodas.

"This dissertation closely examines the art and craft workshops at the French-Jesuit-run orphanage of Tushanwan in the first decades of the twentieth-century. Founded in the 1860s, the workshops taught Chinese orphaned boys a wide range of vocational skills from painting to shoemaking in preparation for their entry into adulthood in a rapidly modernizing China. Using different art objects and projects created at the major workshops as my primary subjects of investigation, the dissertation analyzes the transmission, translation, and reinvention of modern Euro-American aesthetic ideologies and techniques at Tushanwan and their receptions. In the process I question the nature and motivation of commercial workshops like Tushanwan beyond the monetary and reframe its practices and operations in terms of the religious, institutional, cultural, and historical legacies of the Jesuits in China. I also expand the global scope of popular late nineteenth- century European aesthetic movements such as the Arts and Crafts by accounting for the reinterpretation of those ideologies within the local context. Through the works and practices from the workshops, I describe a collage of interactions between China and the world united by a sense of common spiritual identity that supposedly transcended national and state boundaries, but instead reified and maintained the heterogeneity of identities."--Abstract.

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