Dedication

pp 5-6

Contents

pp 7-8

List of Figures

pp 9-12

Acknowledgments

pp 13-14

Introduction: (Un)Authorised Heritage Discourse and Practice in China

pp 15-36

Section 1 - (Re)constructions, (Re)inventions, and Representations of Heritage

pp 37-38

1 - The Social Life of Heritage-Making: Cultural Representations and Frictions

pp 39-68

2 - Confucian Academies and the Materialisation of Cultural Heritage

pp 69-88

3 - From Destruction to Reconstruction: China's Confucian Heritage, Nationalism, and National Identity

pp 89-110

4 - Set in Stone: Continuity and Omission in Possessive Representations of the Great Wall

pp 111-128

Section 2 - Creating Identities: Constructing Pasts, Disseminating Heritage

pp 129-130

5 - Contemporary Fabrication of Pasts and the Creation of New Identities?: Open-Air Museums and Historical Theme Parks in the UK and China

pp 131-168

6 - Creating Cultural Identity in China: Popularising Archaeological Material and Cultural Heritage

pp 169-190

7 - The Museum as Expression of Local Identity and Place: The Case of Nanjing

pp 191-212

Section 3 - History, Nostalgia, and Heritage: Urban and Rural

pp 213-214

8 - The Role of History, Nostalgia and Heritage in the Construction and Indigenisation of State-led Political and Economic Identities in Contemporary China

pp 215-238

9 - Local Voices and New Narratives in Xinye Village: The Economy of Nostalgia and Heritage

pp 239-258

Section 4 - Appropriations and Commodifications of Ethnic Heritage

pp 259-260

10 - ‘Even if you don't want to Drink, you still have to Drink’: The Yi and Alcohol in History and Heritage

pp 261-276

11 - ‘Ethnic Heritage’ on the New Frontier: The Idealisation and Commodification of Ethnic ‘Otherness’ in Xinjiang

pp 277-296

Afterword: Historicising and Globalising the Heritage Turn in China

pp 297-306

Index

pp 307-312

Publications / Asian Heritages

pp 313-313