Materiality and Spectacle 2015

China Centennial Main Building

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Title

China Centennial Main Building

Description

Despite China's late arrival to the Centennial and limited space for their exhibit, China's exhibit was made extremely unique by their use of partitions along the perimeter and the addition of a roof to the exhibit. This enclosure blocked distractions from other exhibits and created an illusion of an actual trip into China.

~Madeleine Hodges~

Source

http://www.gutenberg-e.org/haj01/images/haj10d.html
Source: Centennial Photograph Collection, the Free Library of Philadelphia.
http://www.gutenberg-e.org/haj01/images/haj10e.html
Source: Centennial Photograph Collection, the Free Library of Philadelphia.

Haddad, John Rogers, “Traditional China and the Chinese Yankee: The Centennial Exposition of 1876” in The Romance of China : Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1776-1876, ( New York : Columbia University Press), 2009, p. 253-289.

Date

1876 Centennial

Files

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Citation

“China Centennial Main Building,” Materiality and Spectacle 2015, accessed November 27, 2025, https://ds-omeka.haverford.edu/materiality-and-spectacle-2015/items/show/50.