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Chinese heritage in the making : experiences, negotiations and contestations
Title
Chinese heritage in the making : experiences, negotiations and contestations / edited by Christina Maags and Marina Svensson.
ISBN
9789048534067
9048534062
9789462983694
9462983690
Published
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
The language of cultural heritage is pervasive in China today. In official rhetoric and policy it is linked to political and economic goals, and serves as a resource for political legitimacy, soft power, and economic development. But the heritage discourse has also opened up space for and legitimized many cultural practices as well as encouraged new actors to appropriate the new discourse to protect their own traditions. Individual citizens, local communities, and heritage experts, are thus today debating, performing and consuming a diverse cultural heritage. The book pays particular attention to individual citizens, local communities, religious associations, and heritage experts and focuses on their possibilities for voice and agency, how the heritage-isation process affects different groups of people, as well as the interplay between top-down and bottom-up processes in the heritage field.
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KU Select 2017 Frontlist Collection. OCLC KB.
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Print version: Chinese heritage in the making. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 01, 2022
Series
IIAS publications series
Asian heritages ; [3]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Mapping the Chinese heritage regime: ruptures, governmentality, and agency / Marina Svensson and Christina Maags
Section I: Re-imagining the past: contested memories and contemporary issues
Telling stories in a borderland: the evolving life of Ma Bufang's official residence / Susette Cooke
From a symbol of imperialistic penetration to a site of cultural heritage: the 'Italian-style exotic district' in Tianjin / Hong Zhang
Historic urban landscape in Beijing: the Gulou project and its contested memories / Florence Graezer Bideau and Haiming Yan
Section II: Celebrating and experiencing the cultural heritage: top-down and bottom-up processes and negotiations
Creating a race to the top: hierarchies and competition within the Chinese ICH transmitters system / Christina Maags
Heritagizing the Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Festival in Hong Kong / Selina Chan
Recognition and misrecognition: the politics of intangible cultural heritage in Southwest China / Tami Blumenfield
Holy heritage: identity and authenticity in a Tibetan village / Sonja Laukkanen
Section III: Public debates in heritage work: possibilities and limitations for plural voices and new forms of engagements
Heritage visions of Mayor Geng Yanbo: re-creating the city of Datong / Jinze Cui
The revitalization of Zhizhu Temple: policies, actors, and debates / Lui Tam
Heritage 2.0: maintaining affective engagements with the local heritage in Taishun / Marina Svensson.
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