Heritage Conservation and China's Belt and Road Initiative

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvVictor Chan,Yew-Foong Hui,Desmond Hui,Kazem Vafadari

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This book explores how China’s Belt and Road Initiative through promoting a non-Western-centred geopolitical narrative is affecting the conservation and management of Belt and Road heritage sites. Considering the dynamics between academics, heritage professionals, and government officials, the inscription process and management of Silk Roads heritage sites, and the practice of China’s Belt and Road heritage diplomacy, the book examines how changing heritage conservation practices are influenced by politics and professionalism and negotiated in different ways across different nation states in the Belt and Road zones. Highlighting the different aims and outlooks of Chinese diplomacy, UNESCO and other international heritage conservation organisations, nation states as guardians of national interests, and local communities as custodians of everyday lived heritage, it shows how the Belt and Road Initiative has energised multilateral efforts in heritage diplomacy and management. It also discusses how the ‘professional’ status of heritage professionals, including practitioners engaged by governments and international organisations and also scholars and researchers who provide consultancy advice, is often not politics-free, with heritage professionals often co-opted into speaking for stakeholders, especially national governments.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-04-14
Mått156 x 234 x 11 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Contemporary China Series
Antal sidor194
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032513737

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Victor C.M. Chan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.Yew-Foong Hui is a Professor in the Department of Sociology, at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong.Desmond Hui is a Professor and Founding Department Head of Art and Design at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.Kazem Vafadari is Professor of Tourism and Hospitality at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan.

ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesList of Contributors1.IntroductionHeritage conservation and China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Between politics and professionalismVictor C.M. CHAN, Yew-Foong HUI, Desmond HUI and Kazem VAFADARIPart I: The “new discourses” of silk roads2. Silk road expertise and the geopolitics of connectivityTim WINTER3. The construction of the silk roads as World Heritage in ChinaJieyi XIE4. The silk roads: A mirror of contestation and a metaphor of ‘revival’ in regional shared heritageSandra USKOKOVICPart II: Negotiating the inscription and management of heritage sites5.Archaeological heritage management along the silk roads: Ancient and modern contextTim WILLIAMS6.Reviving the ancient maritime silk road: The politics of heritage instrumentalization in Asia’s port cities of Quanzhou and MelakaYunci CAI7. Negotiating architectural restoration approaches: Differences between Chinese and Singaporean conservation specialistsKang Shua YEO8.The importance of Iran’s Yazd province for the Silk Road: Past, Present and FutureKazem VAFADARI and Nastaran EHSANIPart III: China’s Heritage diplomacy along Belt and Road initiative9.Chinese archaeology in Egypt: Between eurocentrism, de-westernisation and decolonalisationChristian LANGER10.Silk Roads heritage diplomacy: UNESCO & China’s Belt and Road InitiativeVictor C.M. CHAN11.The maritime silk road: tourism, heritage, symbols and the people-to-people dimension of China’s ‘heritage diplomacy’ in IndonesiaAngela TRITTO and Punto WIJAYANTO12.Heritage diplomacy along the maritime silk roads: the case of Muslim sites in Southern ChinaPascale BUGNONIndex