Cangbai Wang (UK University of Westminster)

Museum Representations of Chinese Diasporas

Migration Histories and the Cultural Heritage of the Homeland

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Produktbeschreibung

Museum Representations of Chinese Diasporas is the first book to analyse the recent upsurge in museums on Chinese diasporas in China. Examining heritage-making beyond the nation-state, the book provides a much-needed, critical examination of Chinaâ s engagement with its diasporic communities.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Research on Museums and Heritage in Asia
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9780367466299
• ISBN-10: 0367466295
• Artikelnr.: 59987618

Autorenporträt

Cangbai Wang is Reader in Chinese Studies, School of Humanities at the University of Westminster in the UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: The Symbolic Museum
Chapter 1 The birth of the Overseas Chinese History Museum of China
Chapter 2 The representation of the Chinese diasporas as a 'national
self/other'
Part II: The Branding Museum
Chapter 3 Negotiating 'hot' and 'cool' authentication in diasporic
heritage-making at a qiaoxiang
Chapter 4 Repatriation of Chinese cultural relics as a site for
place-making and identity construction
Part III: The Memory Museum
Chapter 5 The stamp of identities: negotiating diasporic Chinese
subjectivity in philatelic space
Chapter 6 How does a house remember? Materialising memories of return
migration at a huaqiao farm
Part IV: The Im/possible Museum
Chapter 7 The im/possibility of museumifying the Chinese diasporas in South
China
Conclusion