The Politics of Displaying Dunhuang

"Stacy Guoying Zhang writes about the Dunhuang artefacts that were stacked for centuries in a sealed library, undisplayed –transferred from a dark cave in China to a dark basement in London, to be shown only twice at the British Museum. "

Paul Pelliot in the Dunhuang Library Cave, 1908. AP8187 ©Le musée Guimet

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