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Collecting and Displaying China's 'Summer Palace' in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France (2017)
Book
Tythacott, L. (Ed.). (2017). Collecting and Displaying China's 'Summer Palace' in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315113395

In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted o... Read More about Collecting and Displaying China's 'Summer Palace' in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France.

Curating the Sacred: Exhibiting Buddhism at World Museum Liverpool (2017)
Journal Article
Tythacott, L. (2017). Curating the Sacred: Exhibiting Buddhism at World Museum Liverpool. Buddhist Studies Review, 34(1), 115-133. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.29020

This article explores issues involved in representing Buddhism in museums, drawing on the author’s experience of curating the Buddhism display at the World Museum Liverpool. It is concerned with processes of de-contextualization and re-contextualizat... Read More about Curating the Sacred: Exhibiting Buddhism at World Museum Liverpool.

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.

Trophies of War: Representing ‘Summer Palace’ Loot in Military Museums in the UK (2015)
Journal Article
Tythacott, L. (2015). Trophies of War: Representing ‘Summer Palace’ Loot in Military Museums in the UK. Museum & Society, 13(4), 469-488. https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v13i4.348

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 Trophies of War: Representing ‘Summer Palace’ Loot in Military Museums in the UK.

The power of taste: the dispersal of the Berkeley Smith collection of Chinese ceramics at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum (1921-1960) (2015)
Journal Article
Tythacott, L. (2016). The power of taste: the dispersal of the Berkeley Smith collection of Chinese ceramics at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum (1921-1960). Journal of the History of Collections, 28(2), 327-343. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhv033

In 1921, Stanley Berkeley Smith (1878-1955), a British banker based in Karachi, offered his collection of around 800 Chinese ceramics on loan to Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum. Berkeley Smith had spent the previous 21years acquiring the objects in I... Read More about The power of taste: the dispersal of the Berkeley Smith collection of Chinese ceramics at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum (1921-1960).

Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches (2014)
Book
Tythacott, L., & Arvanitis, K. (Eds.). (2014). Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches. Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596495

This book examines contemporary approaches to restitution from the perspective of museums. It focuses on the ways in which these institutions have been addressing the subject at a regional, national and international level. In particular, it explores... Read More about Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches.

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 Lives of Chinese Objects: Buddhism, Imperialism and Display (2011)
Book
Tythacott, L. (2011). The Lives of Chinese Objects: Buddhism, Imperialism and Display. Berghahn

This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo – China’s most important pilgrimage island – to their seizure by a British soldier in th... Read More about The Lives of Chinese Objects: Buddhism, Imperialism and Display.

Race on display: the “Melanian”, “Mongolian” and “Caucasian” galleries at Liverpool Museum (1896-1929) (2011)
Journal Article
Tythacott, L. (2011). Race on display: the “Melanian”, “Mongolian” and “Caucasian” galleries at Liverpool Museum (1896-1929). Early Popular Visual Culture, 9(2), 131-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2011.571039

This paper examines a form of evolutionary display that emerged at Liverpool Museum between 1896 and 1929, one based on racial types. It traces the formation and early history of this institution, as well as the development of evolutionary theories i... Read More about Race on display: the “Melanian”, “Mongolian” and “Caucasian” galleries at Liverpool Museum (1896-1929).

Curiosities, Antiquities, Art Treasure, Commodities: collecting Chinese deity figures in mid-nineteenth-century England (2010)
Journal Article
Tythacott, L. (2010). Curiosities, Antiquities, Art Treasure, Commodities: collecting Chinese deity figures in mid-nineteenth-century England. Journal of museum ethnography, 23, 56-71

This paper takes a particular period in the biographies of a set of Chinese Buddhist images - 1850s-1860s – in order to examine the different meanings bestowed upon them by antiquarian collectors. The set consists of five deity figures, the largest o... Read More about Curiosities, Antiquities, Art Treasure, Commodities: collecting Chinese deity figures in mid-nineteenth-century England.

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.

Sacred Island Deities (2009)
Journal Article
Tythacott, L. (2009). Sacred Island Deities. Apollo (London. 1925), 169(563), 90-97