Browsing by Author "Louise Tythacott"
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    Collecting and Displaying China's "Summer Palace" in the West The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France
    (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018) Louise Tythacott
    The history of modern Sino-European relations is still insufficiently known, yet it is of such vital importance to an understanding of China's place and self-positioning in the world today. This volume of essays on Yuanmingyuan by leading and pioneering authors on the topic expertly guide readers through controversial terrain. They often unpublished new materials and original perspectives that will generate new scholarship in a lively field of inquiry." -Ting Chang, University of Nottingham The fate of the objects from Beijings Summer Palace-including their roles in shaping Western views of China and ongoing debates about repatriation-is an immensely interesting and important subject.
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    Returning Southeast Asia's Past
    (NUS Press, 2022-06-07) Louise Tythacott ; Panggah Ardiyansyah
    The last 150 years has seen extensive looting and illicit trafficking of Southeast Asia's cultural heritage. Art objects from the region were distributed to museums and private collections around the world. But in the 21st century, power relations are shifting, a new awareness is growing, and new questions are emerging about the representation and ownership of Southeast Asian cultural material located in the West. This book is a timely consideration of object restitution and related issues across Southeast Asia, bringing together different viewpoints including from museum professionals and scholars in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia—as well as Europe, North America and Australia. The objects themselves are at the centre of most narratives from Khmer art to the Mandalay regalia (repatriated in 1964), Ban Chiang archaeological material and the paintings of Raden Saleh. Legal, cultural, political and diplomatic issues involved in the restitution process are considered in many of the chapters; others look at the ways object restitution is integral to evolving narratives of national identity. The book's editors conclude that restitution processes can transform narratives of loss into opportunities for gain in building knowledge and reconstructing relationships across national borders.