Politics of Scale: Cultural Heritage in China

Yujie Zhu

doi:10.2307/j.ctv12pnscx.6

Politics of Scale: Cultural Heritage in China

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This chapter examines in detail the case of China to illustrate how politics of scale contribute to heritage studies as a critical approach. Examining the production, governance, practice and consumption of cultural heritage in China, I will address the following perspectives of scalar effects on cultural heritage: 1) how scale is used by cultural heritage institutions to legitimate their authority and produce hierarchies among scales; 2) how global heritage discourses affect national and local scales through the process of downscaling; and 3) how local struggles emerge to negotiate with heritage authorities through jumping among scales.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Politics of Scale: New Directions in Critical Heritage Studies
Editors	Tuuli LÃ¤hdesmÃ¤ki, Yujie Zhu & Suzie Thomas
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Berghahn Books
Pages	21-35
Volume	1
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	978-1-78920-016-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12pnscx.6
Publication status	Published - 2019

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