Heritage conservation and China's belt and road initiative
In: Routledge Contemporary China Series
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction: Heritage Conservation and China's Belt and Road Initiative: Between Politics and Professionalism -- PART I: The 'New Discourses' of Silk Roads -- 2. Silk Road Expertise and the Geopolitics of Connectivity -- 3. The Construction of the Silk Roads as World Heritage in China -- 4. The Silk Roads: A Mirror of Contestation and a Metaphor of 'Revival' in Regional Shared Heritage -- PART II: Negotiating the Inscription and Management of Heritage Sites -- 5. Archaeological Heritage Management along the Silk Roads: Ancient and Modern Contexts -- 6. Reviving the Ancient Maritime Silk Road: The Politics of Heritage Instrumentalisation in Asia's Port Cities of Quanzhou and Melaka -- 7. Negotiating Architectural Restoration Approaches: Differences between Chinese and Singaporean Conservation Specialists -- 8. The Importance of Iran's Yazd Province for the Silk Road: Past, Present and Future -- PART III: China's Heritage Diplomacy along Belt and Road Initiative -- 9. Chinese Archaeology in Egypt: Between Eurocentrism, De-Westernisation and Decolonisation -- 10. Silk Roads Heritage Diplomacy: UNESCO and China's Belt and Road Initiative -- 11. The Maritime Silk Road: Tourism, Heritage, Symbols and the People-To-People Dimension of China's 'Heritage Diplomacy' in Indonesia -- 12. Heritage Diplomacy along the Maritime Silk Roads: The Case of Muslim Sites in Southern China -- Index.