Chinese Heritage in the Making.

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Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press 20180307.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Cultural property -- China. Cultural property. Cultural policy. Civilization. China -- Civilization. China -- Cultural policy. China. Electronic books.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13479364

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ISBN:	9789462983694 9462983690
Notes:	Knowledge Unlatched 101320 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection. English.
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.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
1. Mapping the Chinese Heritage Regime: Ruptures, Governmentality, and Agency
Section I. Re-imagining the Past: Contested Memories and Contemporary Issues
2. Telling Stories in a Borderland: The Evolving Life of Ma Bufang's Official Residence
3. From a Symbol of Imperialistic Penetration to a Site of Cultural Heritage: The 'Italian-Style Exotic District' in Tianjin
4. Historic Urban Landscape in Beijing: The Gulou Project and Its Contested Memories
Section II. Celebrating and Experiencing Cultural Heritage: Top-down and Bottom-up Processes and Negotiations
5. Creating a Race to the Top: Hierarchies and Competition within the Chinese ICH Transmitters System
6. Heritagizing the Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Festival in Hong Kong
7. Recognition and Misrecognition: The Politics of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Southwest China
8. Holy Heritage: Identity and Authenticity in a Tibetan Village
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: Re-creating the City of Datong
10. The Revitalization of Zhizhu Temple: Policies, Actors, Debates
11. Heritage 2.0: Maintaining Affective Engagements with the Local Heritage in Taishun
Abbreviations
Index
List of Illustrations
Figure 2.1. Graphic of layout of the Ma Bufang Official Residence at site entrance Photograph
Figure 2.2. Young Chinese tourists at the Jade Hall Photograph

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