The heritage turn in China : the reinvention, dissemination and consumption of heritage / edited by Carol Ludwig, Linda Walton, Yi-Wen Wang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ludwig, Carol, editor.

Walton, Linda, 1982- editor.

Wang, Yi-Wen, editor.

Series:

Asian heritages (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 5.

Asian heritages ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural property--China.

Cultural property.

China--Cultural policy.

China.

China--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This edited volume focuses on heritage discourse and practice in China today as it has evolved from the 'heritage turn' that can be dated to the 1990s. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches to regionally and topically diverse case studies, the contributors to this volume show how particular versions of the past are selected, (re)invented, disseminated and consumed for contemporary purposes. These studies explore how the Chinese state utilises heritage not only for tourism, entertainment, educational and commercial purposes, but also as part of broader political strategies on both the national and international stage. Together, they argue that the Chinese state employs modes of heritage governance to construct new modernities while strengthening collective national identity in support of both its political legitimacy and its claim to status as an international superpower. The authors also consider ways in which state management of heritage is contested by some stakeholders whose embrace of heritage has a different purpose and meaning.

Contents:

Introduction. (Un)authorised heritage discourse and practice in China / Carol Ludwig and Linda Walton

The social life of heritage-making : cultural representations and frictions / Florence Graezer Bideau

Confucian academies and the materialisation of cultural heritage / Linda Walton

From destruction to reconstruction : China's Confucian heritage, nationalism, and national identity / Yingjie Guo

Set in stone : continuity and omission in possessive representations of the Great Wall / Kristin Bayer

Contemporary fabrication of pasts and the creation of new identities? Open-air museums and historical theme parks in the UK and China Carol Ludwig and Yi-Wen Wang

Creating cultural identity in China : popularising archaeological material and cultural heritage / Patrick Wertmann

The museum as expression of local identity and place : the case of Nanjing / Kenny K.K. Ng

The role of history, nostalgia and heritage in the construction and indigenisation of state-led political and economic identities in contemporary China / Andrew Law

Local voices and new narratives in Xinye Village : the economy of nostalgia and heritage / Marina Svensson

'Even if you don't want to drink, you still have to drink' " the Yi and alcohol in history and heritage / Joseph Lawson

'Ethnic heritage' on the new frontier : the idealisation and commodification of ethnic 'otherness' in Xinjiang / David O'Brien and Melissa Shani Brown

Afterword. Historicising and globalising the heritage turn in China / Carol Ludwig and Linda Walton.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-003-70645-2

90-485-3681-2

9781003706458

OCLC:

1176193569