Chinese Heritage in the Making : Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations / Marina Svensson, Christina Maags.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maags, Christina, Editor.

Contributor:

Maags, Christina, editor.

Svensson, Marina, editor.

Series:

Asian heritages (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 3

Asian Heritages ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Cultural policy.

China.

China--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 19 halftones, 4 line art

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

The Chinese state uses cultural heritage as a source of power by linking it to political and economic goals, but heritage discourse has at the same time encouraged new actors to appropriate the discourse to protect their own traditions. This book focuses on that contested nature of heritage, especially through the lens of individuals, local communities, religious groups, and heritage experts. It examines the effect of the internet on heritage-ization, as well as how that process affects different groups of people.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Mapping the Chinese Heritage Regime / Svensson, Marina / Maags, Christina

Section I. Re-imagining the Past: Contested Memories and Contemporary Issues

2. Telling Stories in a Borderland / Cooke, Susette

3. From a Symbol of Imperialistic Penetration to a Site of Cultural Heritage / Zhang, Hong

4. Historic Urban Landscape in Beijing / Bideau, Florence Graezer / Yan, Haiming

Section II. Celebrating and Experiencing Cultural Heritage: Top-down and Bottom-up Processes and Negotiations

5. Creating a Race to the Top / Maags, Christina

6. Heritagizing the Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Festival in Hong Kong / Chan, Selina Ching

7. Recognition and Misrecognition / Blumenfield, Tami

8. Holy Heritage / Laukkanen, Sonja

Section III. Public Debates in Heritage Work: Possibilities and Limitations for Plural Voices and New Forms of Engagements

9. Heritage Visions of Mayor Geng Yanbo / Cui, Jinze

10. The Revitalization of Zhizhu Temple / Tam, Lui

11. Heritage 2.0 / Svensson, Marina

Abbreviations

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

1-003-69237-0

1-04-079724-5

90-485-3406-2

9781003692379

OCLC:

1030816819

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access