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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Asian heritages ; [3] | IIAS publications series | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (318 pages): illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
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  • 9789048534067
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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.
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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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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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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