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Subject(s)

• Yi dai yi lu (Initiative : China) [Browse]
• Cultural property—Protection—China [Browse]
• Cultural property—Protection—International cooperation [Browse]
• Cultural diplomacy—China [Browse]
• China—Foreign relations [Browse]

Editor

• Chan, Victor C. M. [Browse]
• Hui, Yew-Foong [Browse]
• Hui, Desmond [Browse]
• Vafadari, Kazem, 1973- [Browse]

Series

Routledge contemporary China series [More in this series]

Summary note

"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 energized 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction. Heritage conservation and China's Belt and Road Initiative : between politics and professionalism / Victor C.M. Chan, Yew-Foong Hui, Desmond Hui and Kazem Vafadari
• Silk road expertise and the geopolitics of connectivity / Tim Winter
• The construction of the silk roads as world heritage in China / Jieyi Xie
• The silk roads : a mirror of contestation and a metaphor of 'revival' in regional shared heritage / Sandra Uskokovic
• Archaeological heritage management along the silk roads : ancient and modern context / Tim Williams
• Reviving the ancient maritime silk road : the politics of heritage instrumentalization in Asia's port cities of Quanzhou and Melaka / Yunci Cai
• Negotiating architectural restoration approaches : differences between Chinese and Singaporean conservation specialists / Kang Shua Yeo
• The importance of Iran's Yazd province for the Silk Road : past, present and future / Kazem Vafadari and Nastaran Ehsani
• Chinese archaeology in Egypt : between Eurocentrism, de-westernisation and decolonalisation / Christian Langer
• Silk Roads heritage diplomacy : UNESCO & China's Belt and Road Initiative / Victor C.M. Chan
• The maritime silk road : tourism, heritage, symbols and the people-to-people dimension of China's 'heritage diplomacy' in Indonesia / Angela Tritto and Punto Wijayanto
• Heritage diplomacy along the maritime silk roads : the case of Muslim sites in Southern China / Pascale Bugnon.

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ISBN

• 9781032513676
• 1032513675 (hardcover)
• 9781032513737 (paperback)
• 103251373X (paperback)

LCCN

2023027218

OCLC

1395138108

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