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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Asian Heritages ; 3Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource : 19 halftones, 4 line artContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048534067
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301 23
LOC classification:
  • DS721
Online resources:
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
Title is part of eBook package: AUP eBook Package 2016-2018Title is part of eBook package: Amsterdam University Press eBook Package 2018Title is part of eBook package: Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook PackageSummary: 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.
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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

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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.

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