During the Mao era, China's museums served an explicit and uniform propaganda function,
underlining official Party history, eulogizing revolutionary heroes, and contributing to nation …

this article presents an overview of post-mao museum representations of modern chinese
history. the focus is on changing exhibitionary practices and historical narratives in prc …

An examination of museums in China, surveying their development from the nineteenth
century, and looking in particular at their incredible recent proliferation. Museums in China …

From the earliest museums established by Western missionaries in order to implement
religious and political power, to the role they have played in the formation of the modern …

This article examines the representation of Chinese identity in museums in the People's
Republic of China, comparing this briefly with the portrayal of local and national identities in …

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 …

This article explores the display of cultural heritage as a contested project of governance
and social ordering in rural China. It argues that heritage preservation and display are …

This introductory chapter explores how cultural heritage, in the guise of tourism, museums,
ethnic identity, and historical spaces, has become key to the Chinese state's developmental …

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 …

At Wanping, around 50 kilometres from the centre of Beijing, the shots that began the eight-
year war between China and Japan were fired in 1937. On the site there now stands the …