| Description |
1 online resource (191 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research on Museums and Heritage in Asia Ser |
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Routledge Research on Museums and Heritage in Asia Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Museums in China: An overview -- China and the Chinese diasporas: An historical perspective -- The boom in 'Overseas Chinese Museums' in post- Mao China -- A 'macro- museum' approach to cultural heritage -- Museumifying the 'Overseas Chinese': A typology -- Ambivalent heritage -- The organisation of chapters -- Notes -- Part 1 The symbolic museum -- Chapter 1 The birth of the Overseas Chinese History Museum of China |
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Chen Jiageng and the first Overseas Chinese museum in China -- From Chen Jiageng's museum dream to Xi Jinping's 'Chinese Dream' -- From trash to treasure: The invention of huaqiao wenwu -- Notes -- Chapter 2 The representation of the Chinese diasporas as a 'national self/other' -- A symbol of 'a shared spiritual home' -- The metaphor of roots -- The Chinese diasporas on display -- Representing the Chinese diasporas as a national 'self/other' -- Exoticising the Chinese diasporas -- Assimilating the Chinese diasporas -- Notes -- Part 2 The branding museum |
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Chapter 3 Negotiating 'hot' and 'cool' authentication in diasporic heritage-making at a qiaoxiang -- Heritage-making and urban modernity in China -- 'Hot' and 'cool' authentication in diasporic heritage-making -- Museumification: The Jiangmen Wuyi Museum of Overseas Chinese -- Monumentation: Wuyi Overseas Chinese Square, Scholar Street and Star Park -- Ritualisation: Staging the Overseas Chinese Carnival -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Repatriation of Chinese cultural relics as a site for place-making and identity construction -- The discourse of cultural repatriation -- Objects and people |
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Objects and place -- Objects and nation -- Notes -- Part 3 The memory museum -- Chapter 5 The stamp of identities: Negotiating diasporic Chinese subjectivity in philatelic space -- Negotiating and articulating guiqiao identity in the PRC -- The Huaqiao Stories on Postage Stamps -- Between words and images -- Body, affect and materiality in the doing of 'memory work' -- Notes -- Chapter 6 How does a house remember?: Materialising memories of return migration at a huaqiao farm -- The 'return' migration to Maoist China and the huaqiao farms |
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Memory-in: the huaqiao farm, anzhi house and embodiment of guiqiao identity -- Memory-of: Roots, routes and impossible homecoming -- Memory-as: Museumification of the anzhi house -- From a family dwelling to a site of collective memory -- Notes -- Part 4 The im/possible museum -- Chapter 7 The im/possibility of museumifying the Chinese diasporas in South China -- The reviving qiaoxiang project in eastern Guangdong -- The Chen family and the Chen Cihong Residence -- Difficult history, disputed heritage -- The Chen Residence as a contested site of museumification |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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The Chen Residence as an ancestral house |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000286939 |
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1000286932 |
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