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Boîte à Documents (Bunko) (2025)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (in press). Boîte à Documents (Bunko). In Une Passion Chinoise –Monsieur Thiers’ China. Louvre Museum

Transforming Chemrey Museum: Monastic Curating and Co-Curating in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Ladakh (2025)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (2025). Transforming Chemrey Museum: Monastic Curating and Co-Curating in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Ladakh. In Y. Cai (Ed.), The Museum in Asia (115-128). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367815264-11

Over the past decades, Ladakh in northwest India has experienced a museum boom with the creation of exhibitionary spaces in many of the key Buddhist monasteries. While small, single-room displays were set up in the 1990s, the first major ‘Western’ st... Read More about Transforming Chemrey Museum: Monastic Curating and Co-Curating in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Ladakh.

Monastery and Museum in Mustang and Ladakh (2024)
Book Chapter
Luczanits, C., & Tythacott, L. (2024). Monastery and Museum in Mustang and Ladakh. In C. Luczanits, & L. Tythacott (Eds.), Tibetan Monastery Collections and Museums: Traditional Practices and Contemporary Issues (24-85). Vajra Books

Introduction (2024)
Book Chapter
Luczanits, C., & Tythacott, L. (2024). Introduction. In C. Luczanits, & L. Tythacott (Eds.), Tibetan Monastery Collections and Museums: Traditional Practices and Contemporary Issues (13-25). Vajra Books

英国和法国博物馆藏圆明园文物 (2024)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L., & Shichun, L. (2024). 英国和法国博物馆藏圆明园文物. In Y. Xu (Ed.), 圆明园—清代皇家园居文化. 香港故宫文化博物馆 = Hong Kong Palace Museum

The Looting of Koh Ker and the Return of the Prasat Chen statues (2021)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L., Chea, S., & Muong, C. (2021). The Looting of Koh Ker and the Return of the Prasat Chen statues. In L. Tythacott, & P. Ardiyansyah (Eds.), Returning Southeast Asia's Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution (62-86). NUS Press

Collecting and Returning Southeast Asia’s Past (2021)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L., & Ardiyansyah, P. (2021). Collecting and Returning Southeast Asia’s Past. In L. Tythacott, & P. Ardiyansyah (Eds.), Returning Southeast Asia's Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution (1-37). NUS Press

Military Histories of ‘Summer Palace’ objects from China in military museums in the United Kingdom (2020)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (2020). Military Histories of ‘Summer Palace’ objects from China in military museums in the United Kingdom. In H. Lidchi, & S. Allan (Eds.), Dividing the Spoils: Perspectives on Military Collecting and the British Empire (187-204). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526139214.00019

In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War (1856–60), British and French troops looted and then burnt the imperial buildings in the Yuanmingyuan (known at the time by foreigners as the ‘Summer Palace’) in the north of Beijing. This w... Read More about Military Histories of ‘Summer Palace’ objects from China in military museums in the United Kingdom.

The Yuanmingyuan and its Objects (2018)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (2018). The Yuanmingyuan and its Objects. In L. Tythacott (Ed.), Collecting and Displaying China's 'Summer Palace' in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France (3-24). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315113395-1

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the movements and shifting meanings attached to Yuanmingyuan artefacts. The Yuanmingyuan was one of the most important pal... Read More about The Yuanmingyuan and its Objects.

British travels in China during the Opium Wars (1839-1860): Shifting Images and Perceptions (2016)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (2016). British travels in China during the Opium Wars (1839-1860): Shifting Images and Perceptions. In K. Hill (Ed.), Britain and the Narration of Travel in the Nineteenth Century: Texts, Images, Objects (191-208). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315563046-11

For over two thousand years, European travellers and traders have found their way to the country now known as China. The Romans, for example, referred to this territory as Seres, the land of silk (Hughes, 1937: 4). The Travels of Marco Polo, publishe... Read More about British travels in China during the Opium Wars (1839-1860): Shifting Images and Perceptions.

Classifying China: shifting interpretations of Buddhist bronzes in Liverpool Museum, 1867-1997 (2012)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (2012). Classifying China: shifting interpretations of Buddhist bronzes in Liverpool Museum, 1867-1997. In K. Hill (Ed.), Museums and Biographies: Stories, Objects, Identities (173-185). Boydell and Brewer

This chapter examines the lives of a set of five Chinese Buddhist deity figures in Liverpool Museum, from 1867 to 1997. The largest figure, an almost life-size bronze statue of the Goddess of Compassion, Guanyin, probably dates from the early fifteen... Read More about Classifying China: shifting interpretations of Buddhist bronzes in Liverpool Museum, 1867-1997.

The Politics of Representation in Museums (2010)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (2010). The Politics of Representation in Museums. In M. J. Bates (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (4230-4241). Taylor and Francis

This entry begins by examining key words, ‘politics’, ‘power’ and ‘representation’, as they relate to the museum. It then moves on to explore how the politics of representation have been manifested in displays. A range of exhibitions is examined, par... Read More about The Politics of Representation in Museums.

From the ‘fetish’ to the ‘specimen’: the Ridyard African collection at the Liverpool Museum 1895-1916 (2001)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (2001). From the ‘fetish’ to the ‘specimen’: the Ridyard African collection at the Liverpool Museum 1895-1916. In A. Shelton (Ed.), Collectors: expressions of self and other (157-179). Horniman Museum

On 1st July 1895 Arnold Ridyard, a Chief Engineer with the Elder Dempster & Co. donated his first group of artefacts to Liverpool Museum. Twenty one years and 77 voyages later, he had transported almost six-and-a-half thousand objects from coastal re... Read More about From the ‘fetish’ to the ‘specimen’: the Ridyard African collection at the Liverpool Museum 1895-1916.

Souvenirs of the travelling surrealists (2000)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (2000). Souvenirs of the travelling surrealists. In M. Hitchcock, & K. Teague (Eds.), Souvenirs: the material culture of tourism (72-77). Ashgate

Eastern Asia (1995)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (1995). Eastern Asia. In C. O'Neill, P. Casterton, & C. Headlam (Eds.), Kingfisher Book of Mythology (100-125). Larousse

The Theatre of the Incorporeal (1995)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (1995). The Theatre of the Incorporeal. In R. Benewick, & S. Donald (Eds.), Belief in China: Art and Politics; Deities and Mortality (19-27). Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums

Kinyozi: African Art between the boundaries (1994)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (1994). Kinyozi: African Art between the boundaries. In Kinyozi: The Art of African Hairstyles (9-21). Green Centre for Non-Western Art