Abstract The establishment of a museum in the precinct Ch'anggyŏnggung Palace 1909 marked an important moment historiography Korean art. Although recent studies have examined founding, organization, and financing first museum, formation its Buddhist art collection historical implications remain unexamined. Given that not single temple was allowed to exist within capital city, entry these object...

Zijincheng, also known as the Forbidden City, is largest and best-preserved ancient palace-type wooden building in China, built without using a single nail. Since it was 1420, has served palace where emperor lives works. Almost 600 years old, gone through two dynasties (i.e., Ming Qing (AD 1368–AD 1912)) 24 emperors. It survived more than 200 devastating earthquakes throughout its history, stil...

EN) The paper documents the creation in 2004 of real-world stereographic panoramas at the UNESCO world heritage listed site Angkor, in Cambodia. The project builds upon the history of the panorama as a medium of virtual travel that has existed from the eighteenth century. The significance of the current project is the way in which real-world (as opposed to computer generated) stereographic pano...

This study examines Chinese imperial polygamy under two aspects, as institution and actual practice. Institution refers to its existence as a set of rules and expectations, practice to the actual ways in which imperial people carried out polygamy as recorded in both historical and fictional sources. The key to the institutionalization of polygamy had to do with the idea that a ruler did not eng...