Cangbai Wang

Museum Representations of Chinese Diasporas (eBook, PDF)

Migration Histories and the Cultural Heritage of the Homeland

• Format: PDF

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 China's engagement with its diasporic communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000286915
• Artikelnr.: 60509687

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