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The Heritage Turn in China : The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage / ed. by Carol Ludwig, Linda Walton, Yi-Wen Wang.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Asian Heritages ; 5Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048536818
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section 1. (Re)constructions, (Re)inventions, and Representations of Heritage -- 1 The Social Life of Heritage-Making -- 2 Confucian Academies and the Materialisation of Cultural Heritage -- 3 From Destruction to Reconstruction -- 4 Set in Stone -- Section 2. Creating Identities: Constructing Pasts, Disseminating Heritage -- 5 Contemporary Fabrication of Pasts and the Creation of New Identities? -- 6 Creating Cultural Identity in China -- 7 The Museum as Expression of Local Identity and Place -- Section 3. History, Nostalgia, and Heritage: Urban and Rural -- 8 The Role of History, Nostalgia and Heritage in the Construction and Indigenisation of State-led Political and Economic Identities in Contemporary China -- 9 Local Voices and New Narratives in Xinye Village -- Section 4. Appropriations and Commodifications of Ethnic Heritage -- 10 'Even If You Don't Want to Drink, You Still Have to Drink' -- 11 'Ethnic Heritage' on the New Frontier -- Afterword -- Index
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.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section 1. (Re)constructions, (Re)inventions, and Representations of Heritage -- 1 The Social Life of Heritage-Making -- 2 Confucian Academies and the Materialisation of Cultural Heritage -- 3 From Destruction to Reconstruction -- 4 Set in Stone -- Section 2. Creating Identities: Constructing Pasts, Disseminating Heritage -- 5 Contemporary Fabrication of Pasts and the Creation of New Identities? -- 6 Creating Cultural Identity in China -- 7 The Museum as Expression of Local Identity and Place -- Section 3. History, Nostalgia, and Heritage: Urban and Rural -- 8 The Role of History, Nostalgia and Heritage in the Construction and Indigenisation of State-led Political and Economic Identities in Contemporary China -- 9 Local Voices and New Narratives in Xinye Village -- Section 4. Appropriations and Commodifications of Ethnic Heritage -- 10 'Even If You Don't Want to Drink, You Still Have to Drink' -- 11 'Ethnic Heritage' on the New Frontier -- Afterword -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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