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Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage
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Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage explores the construction of "authenticity" and its consequences in relation to Chinese cultural heritage—those objects, texts, and intangible practices concerned with China’s past.
Including contributions from scholars around the world reflecting on a range of different materials and time periods, Understanding Authenticity emphasizes the situatedness and fluidity of authenticity concepts. Attitudes toward authenticity change over time and place, and vary between communities and object types, among stakeholders in China as they do elsewhere. The book examines how "authenticity" relates to four major aspects of cultural heritage in China—art and material culture; cultural heritage management and preservation; living and intangible heritage; and texts and manuscripts—with individual contributions engaging in a critical and interdisciplinary conversation that weaves together heritage management, art history, archaeology, architecture, tourism, law, history, and literature. Moving beyond conceptual issues, the book also considers the practical ramifications for work in cultural heritage management, museums, and academic research.
Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage provides an opportunity for reflection on the contingencies of authenticity debates - not only in relation to China, but also anywhere around the world. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in a variety of fields, including heritage studies, Asian studies, art history, museum studies, history, and archaeology.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 1.0MB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.4324/9781003290834
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- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Oxford, UK
- Publication date:
- 2023-03-15
- Edition:
- 1
- DOI:
- ISBN:
- 9781003290834
- Language:
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English
- Pubs id:
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1331771
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pubs:1331771
- Source identifiers:
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W4321446686
- Deposit date:
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2026-07-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Anke Hein and Christopher J. Foster
- Copyright date:
- 2023
- Rights statement:
- © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Anke Hein and Christopher J. Foster; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Anke Hein and Christopher J. Foster to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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