Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past studies the impact of heritage policies and discourses on the Chinese state and Chinese society. It sheds light on the way Chinese …
The coal-mining town of Fushun in China's Northeast is home to a monstrous open pit. First excavated in the early twentieth century, this pit grew like a widening maw over the ensuing …
S Bollo, Y Zhang - Museum International, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In a commercialised and globalised China, museum institutions are pivotal elements in public strategies to present and create national self‐consciousness, insofar as their vast …
When nations decide to disown their troubled pasts, how does this strategic disavowal harden into social fact? In Negative Exposures, Margaret Hillenbrand investigates the …
The Second World War is omnipresent in contemporary memory debates. As the war fades from living memory, this study is the first to systematically analyze how Second World War …
The chapter introduces the reader to the edited volume. It explores cultural heritage policy and practice in China by making use of concepts and theories from both heritage studies …
C Orjuela - Third World Quarterly, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Although famines have historically claimed millions of lives, they are rarely publicly remembered through monuments, commemorative events or museums. This article …
Simulacrascapes, namely “shanzhai architectures” or “copycat architectures”, ubiquitous in many Chinese cities are reshaping urban spaces culturally, politically and economically …
MS Brown - Culture, Theory and Critique, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT This article explores Han Chinese tourists' practice of self-photography in 'ethnic''costume'at tourist sites in China and Japan. Drawing on ethnography and interviews …