Cultural Heritage Politics in China

PART I: INTRODUCTION

1. Cultural Heritage Politics in China: An Introduction

Helaine Silverman and Tami Blumenfield

2. Does the Institution of Property Rights Matter to Heritage Preservation? Evidence from China

TANG Zijun

PART II: Local, Regional, National and International Interests in a World Heritage Era

3. Chinese Cosmopolitanism (tianxia he shijie zhuyi) in China's Heritage Tourism

Margaret Byrne Swain

4. Groping for Stones to Cross the River: Governing Heritage in Emei

Yujie ZHU and Na LI

5. Local versus National Interests in the Promotion and Management of a Heritage Site. A Case Study from Zhejiang Province, China

Wei ZHAO

6. Tourism, Migration and the Politics of Built Heritage in Lijiang, China

Xiaobo SU

7. Dancing in the Market: Reconfiguring Commerce and Heritage in Lijiang

Heather Peters

PART III: CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TOURISM IN UNDESIGNATED SITES

8. Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Claiming Heritage in the Longji Terraced Fields Scenic Area

Jenny T. CHIO

9. Re-constructing Cultural Heritage and Imagining Wa Primitiveness in the China/Myanmar Borderlands

LIU Tzu-kai

PART IV: THE POLITICS OF MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS

10. Beijing's Museums in the Context of the 2008 Olympics

Curtis Ashton

11. Community Empowerment at the Periphery? Participatory Approaches to Heritage Protection in Guizhou, China

William Nitzky

PART V: ROUTES AS HERITAGE - BRANDING SPACE IN A GLOBAL[IZED] CHINA

12. The Ancient Tea Horse Road and the Politics of Heritage in Southwest China: Regional Identity in the Context of a Rising China

Gary Sigley

13. Branding Tengchong: Globalization, Road Building and Spatial Reconfigurations in Yunnan, Southwest China

ZHOU Yongming

14. The Role of Underwater Archaeology in Framing and Facilitating the Chinese National Strategic Agenda

Jeff Adams

PART VI. AFTERWORD

15. China's Tangled Web of Heritage

Stevan Harrell