Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China

This book includes ethnographic studies of social belonging and knowledge manifest in everyday ideas about cultural practices and their transmission in China. Intersecting with state, entrepreneurial, and transcultural interests, the contributors argue that the grassroots is where cultural beliefs are sustained as the condition of living heritage.

List of contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Grassroots Values: Issues, Questions and Perspectives on Local Heritage
Harriet Evans & Michael Rowlands
Chapter 1: What and Whose is Local Heritage? Perspectives from Everyday Lives in an "Old Beijing Neighborhood"
Harriet Evans
Chapter 2: Encountering Virginia Woolf in Dashalar: Heritage Quests and Local Efficacies
Beverley Butler
Chapter 3: Rediscovering "Huangshan" in a Heritage Context: Spatial Strategy and Invisible Locality
Luo Pan
Chapter 4: 'Slave(s)' to the Great Museum: Heritage, Labor and Ethics in the Jianchuan Museum Complex
Zhang Lisheng
Chapter 5: Between State and Local Residents: Heritage Perspectives and Their Combination in Quanzhou, Southern Fujian
Stephan Feuchtwang
Chapter 6: Naming the Living Heritage in Quanzhou
Michael Rowlands
Chapter 7: Commitments to the Past: Cultural Transmission in a Naxi Village
Peter Guangpei Ran
Chapter 8: Threads of Time in a Small Naxi Village; Women, Weaving and Gendered Dimensions of Local Cultural Heritage
Harriet Evans
Chapter 9: Destruction, Devastation and Reinvented Tradition in Heritage Construction in Dukezong, Shangri-La
Wu Yinling
Chapter 10: From "Cultural Relics" to "Sacred Objects": A Case Study of Local Heritage Protection in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery
He Beili
Afterword
Wang Mingming
About the Contributors

About the author

Edited by Harriet Evans and Michael Rowlands - Afterword by Wang Mingming - Contributions by Harriet Evans; Michael Rowlands; Beverley Butler; Luo Pan; Zhang Lisheng; Stephan Feuchtwang; Peter Guangpei Ran; Wu Yinling; He Beili and Wang Mingming

Product details

• Authors: Harriet Evans, Harriet Rowlands Evans
• Assisted by: Harriet Evans (Editor), Michael Rowlands (Editor), Rowlands Michael (Editor), Mingming Wang (Afterword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781793632739
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-273-9
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / China, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, Regional Studies, Asian History, Gender studies, gender groups, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies