Reconsidering cultural heritage in East Asia / edited by Akira Matsuda and Luisa Elena Mengoni.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Matsuda, Akira, 1975- editor.

Mengoni, Luisa E., editor.

Series:

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural property--East Asia.

Cultural property.

Cultural property--China.

Cultural property--Japan.

Cultural property--Korea (South).

Arts, East Asian.

China--Cultural policy.

China.

Japan--Cultural policy.

Japan.

Korea (South)--Cultural policy.

Korea (South).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 161 pages) : colour illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

London : Ubiquity Press Ltd, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The concept of 'cultural heritage' has acquired increasing currency in culture, politics and societies in East Asia. However, in spite of a number of research projects in this field, our understanding of how the past and its material expressions have been perceived, conceptualised and experienced in this part of the world, and how these views affect contemporary local practices and notions of identity, particularly in a period of rapid economic development and increasing globalisation, is still very unclear. Preoccupation with cultural heritage - expressed in the rapid growth of national and private museums, the expansion of the antiquities' market, revitalisation of local traditions, focus on 'intangible cultural heritage' and the development of cultural tourism - is something that directly or indirectly affects national policies and international relations. An investigation of how the concept of 'cultural heritage' has been and continues to be constructed in East Asia, drawing on several case studies taken from China, Japan and Korea, is thus timely and worthwhile.

Contents:

Introduction : reconsidering cultural heritage in East Asia / Akira Matsuda and Luisa Elena Mengoni

Considering undercurrents in Japanese cultural heritage management : the logic of actualisation and the preservation of the present / Masahiro Ogino

Evolving and contested cultural heritage in China : the rural heritagescape / Marina Svensson

The emergence of 'cultural heritage' in modern China : a historical and legal perspective / Guolong Lai

$t Ethnic heritage in Yunnan : contradictions and challenges / Fuquan Yang

Cultural heritage in Korea

from a Japanese perspective / Toshiro Asakura

The concept of 'cultural landscapes' in relation to the historic port town of Tomo / Kazuo Mouri

Shaping Japan's disaster heritage / Megan Good.

Notes:

Some of the papers were originally presented at a workshop and conference "Cultural Heritage? in East Asia," organized by the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC), the Japan Foundation and the International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology, with support from the School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the UCL Institute of Archaeology, in London and Norwich in March 2010.

Includes bibliographical referecnces.

CC BY

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ISBN:

1-909188-90-5

1-909188-89-1

OCLC:

972045533

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.5334/baz