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

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 part...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Asian Heritages ; 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (314 p.)
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Table of 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