Written by Lisheng Zhang The first item visitors see in the Jianchuan Museum Complex (JMC), China’s largest non-state museum, is a red gantry crane. In its overwhelming immensity, the 20-by-12-metre steel structure, acquired from a city stricken during the 2008…
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Written by Sonja Laukkanen Meili Snow Mountains National Park is located in the northwestern corner of Yunnan Province in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, close to the border of Tibet Autonomous Region. The park is a part of the Three Parallel…
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Written by Paul Kendall During 2011 and 2012, I did fieldwork in the small city of Kaili studying – among other things – its branding as a tourist destination of singing and dancing ethnic minorities. Branding turned out to be…
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Written by Mengran Zhu It seems that every city with rapid economic development follows the same rule, that is, at the early stage of urbanisation, development was closely connected with the rise of manufacturing industry. Industry is the main kinetic…
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Written by Sabina Cioboata Following decades of reform and rapid growth in China, urban regeneration has been one of the most transformative phenomena for cities and their dwellers. Under the umbrella of cultural or heritage-led regeneration, state and market- dominated…
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Written by Philipp Demgenski In early 2017, I joined the UNESCO Friction Project and set out to study how the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity is implemented in China. In this post…
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Written by Harriet Evans What is cultural heritage in China today? Dominant top-down practices of cultural heritage in China are accompanied by the massive construction of museums, competition for UNESCO recognition, and projects of heritage tourism increasingly associated with the…
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Written by Editor This issue explores heritage and memory. We asked our contributors to reflect on the many discourses and practices of heritage and memory in contemporary China, and their complex relationships with the politics of cultural identity. Pieces in…
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