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portada Fragile Cargo: The World war ii Race to Save the Treasures of China'S Forbidden City (en Inglés)
Formato
Libro Físico
Editorial
Idioma
Inglés
N° páginas
384
Encuadernación
Tapa Dura
Dimensiones
23.5 x 16.2 x 3.4 cm
Peso
0.56 kg.
ISBN13
9781982149291

Fragile Cargo: The World war ii Race to Save the Treasures of China'S Forbidden City (en Inglés)

Adam Brookes (Autor) · Atria Books · Tapa Dura

Fragile Cargo: The World war ii Race to Save the Treasures of China'S Forbidden City (en Inglés) - Brookes, Adam

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Reseña del libro "Fragile Cargo: The World war ii Race to Save the Treasures of China'S Forbidden City (en Inglés)"

The gripping true story of the bold and determined museum curators who saved the priceless treasures of China's Forbidden City in the years leading up to World War II and beyond. Spring 1933: The silent courtyards and palaces of Peking's Forbidden City, for centuries the home of Chinese emperors, are tense with fear and expectation. Japan's aircrafts drone overhead, its troops and tanks are only hours away. All-out war between China and Japan is coming, and the curators of the Forbidden City are faced with an impossible question: how will they protect the vast imperial art collections in their charge? A difficult and monumental decision is made: to safeguard the treasures, they will need to be evacuated. The magnificent collections contain a million pieces of art--objects that carry China's deepest and most ancient memories. Among them are irreplaceable artefacts: exquisite paintings on silk, vanishingly rare Ming porcelain, and the extraordinary Stone Drums of Qin, which are adorned with 2,500-year-old inscriptions of crucial cultural significance. For sixteen terrifying years, under the quiet leadership of museum director Ma Heng, the curators would go on to transport the imperial art collections thousands of miles across China--up rivers of white water, across mountain ranges, and through burning cities. In their search for safety the curators and their fragile, invaluable cargo journeyed through the maelstrom of violence, chaos, and starvation that was China's Second World War. Told for the first time in English and playing out across a vast historical canvas, this is the exhilarating story of a small group of men and women who, when faced with war's onslaught on civilization, chose to resist. Fragile Cargo reminds us of the enduring power of beauty in a world beset by conflict and violence.

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