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The Heritage Turn in China: The Reinvention, Dissemination and
Consumption of Heritage 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 edited 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 deploys 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.
At a time when intense dynamics of urban development of Asian
cities puzzle and disorient, Ideas of the City in Asian Settings
offers knowledge about the concepts, representations, and ideas
that lie beneath the historical and contemporary production of
cities in Asia, in order to deepen our understanding of the
processes and meanings of urban development in the continent. The
book sheds more light on the vast array of rules and innovations
and aspirations that make cities into complex objects that are
continuously 'in the making'. Because Asian cities have experienced
unprecedented dynamics of urban development during the last fifty
years, they are considered as crucial places to question the
perspectives that multiple actors project onto changing urban
environments, as well as the evolution of the role of cities in
globalisation.
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