{"product_id":"grassroots-values-and-local-cultural-heritage-in-china-9781793632739","title":"Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe recent heritage boom in China is transforming local social, economic, and cultural life and reshaping domestic and global notions of China's national identity. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted largely by young anthropologists in China, Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China departs from the dominant top-down UNESCO-influenced narrative of cultural heritage preservation and approaches the local not as a fixed definition of place but as a shifting site of negotiation between state, entrepreneurial, transcultural, and local community interests. The volume takes readers along an unusual trajectory between a disadvantaged neighborhood in central Beijing, metropolitan centers in Anhui and Sichuan, Quanzhou in the southeast, and Yunnan in the southwest before finally ending at the great Samye Monastery in Tibet. Across these sites, the contributors converge in apprehending the grassroots as an arena of everyday life and belonging underpinning ordinary social interactions and cultural practices as diverse as funeral rituals, Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimages, and encounters between young contemporary artists and the Bloomsbury Group. In examining the diversity of local cultural practices and knowledge that underpin ideas about cultural value, this volume argues that grassroots cultural beliefs are essential to the liveability and sustainability of life and living heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Grassroots Values: Issues, Questions and Perspectives on Local Heritage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarriet Evans \u0026amp; Michael Rowlands\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: What and Whose is Local Heritage? Perspectives from Everyday Lives in an “Old Beijing Neighborhood” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarriet Evans\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Encountering Virginia Woolf in Dashalar: Heritage Quests and Local Efficacies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeverley Butler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Rediscovering “Huangshan” in a Heritage Context: Spatial Strategy and Invisible Locality \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuo Pan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: ‘Slave(s)’ to the Great Museum: Heritage, Labor and Ethics in the Jianchuan Museum Complex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZhang Lisheng\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Between State and Local Residents: Heritage Perspectives and Their Combination in Quanzhou, Southern Fujian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephan Feuchtwang\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Naming the Living Heritage in Quanzhou \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Rowlands \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Commitments to the Past: Cultural Transmission in a Naxi Village\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Guangpei Ran\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Threads of Time in a Small Naxi Village; Women, Weaving and Gendered Dimensions of Local Cultural Heritage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarriet Evans\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Destruction, Devastation and Reinvented Tradition in Heritage Construction in Dukezong, Shangri-La \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWu Yinling\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: From “Cultural Relics” to “Sacred Objects”: A Case Study of Local Heritage Protection in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe Beili\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWang Mingming\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042664808791,"sku":"9781793632739","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793632739.jpg?v=1750955079","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/grassroots-values-and-local-cultural-heritage-in-china-9781793632739","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}