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National Endowment for the Humanities, "Worshipped, Plundered, and Digitized" (2010)

National Endowment for the Humanities, 2010

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A federal humanities magazine feature on the early twentieth century removal of Buddhist sculpture from the Xiangtangshan cave temples in Hebei, China, and the University of Chicago's ongoing project to digitally reunite the scattered pieces, now held in museums worldwide, with the caves they were cut from.

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Reliability Tier
1
Reliability tier 2: a federal humanities agency's magazine feature summarizing a university research project for a general readership, not itself the underlying academic publication, but consistent with and drawing directly on it.
Notes
A federal humanities agency's own magazine reporting on a university research project, corroborated by the University of Chicago Center for the Art of East Asia's own published Xiangtangshan Caves Project findings. 1
Citation
Author
National Endowment for the Humanities 1
Publisher
Humanities magazine (neh.gov) 1
Publication Year
2010 1
URL
https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2010/novemberdecember/feature/worshipped-plundered-and-digitized 1
Source Type
Government agency 1
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This source backs 2 claims across the atlas. As facts: 1 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Sacred Art & Iconography, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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