Heritage Conservation and China's Belt and Road Initiative (Routledge Contemporary China Series)

By: Victor C.M. Chan and Yew-Foong Hui and Desmond Hui and Kazem Vafadari

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781003802037
Related ISBNs:: 9781032513676, 9781003401919, 9781032513737
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 11/23/23
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Victor C.M. Chan, Yew-Foong Hui, Desmond Hui and Kazem Vafadari
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Victor C.M. Chan
Edited by:: Yew-Foong Hui
Edited by:: Desmond Hui
Edited by:: Kazem Vafadari