How Long to Read The Lives of Chinese Objects

How Long Does it Take to Read The Lives of Chinese Objects?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read The Lives of Chinese Objects by Louise Tythacott

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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 the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers' and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverpool Museum. Here they were re-conceptualized as specimens of the 'Mongolian race' and, later, as examples of Oriental art. The statues escaped the bombing of the Museum during the Second World War and lived out their existence for the next sixty years, dismembered, corroding and neglected in the stores, their histories lost and origins unknown. As the curator of Asian collections at Liverpool Museum, the author became fascinated by these bronzes, and selected them for display in the Buddhism section of the World Cultures gallery. In 2005, quite by chance, the discovery of a lithograph of the figures on prominent display in the Great Exhibition enabled the remarkable lives of these statues to be reconstructed.

How long is The Lives of Chinese Objects?

The Lives of Chinese Objects by Louise Tythacott is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Lives of Chinese Objects Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read The Lives of Chinese Objects aloud.

What Reading Level is The Lives of Chinese Objects?

The Lives of Chinese Objects is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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