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A Chinese Discourse of Heritage

Song Hou (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

75 Seiten

2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-49567-7 (ISBN)

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This Element presents an alternative approach to critical heritage studies by attending to forgotten or transformed cultural, historical ideas of heritage. It focuses on the Chinese term guji, one today perceived as the same with modern concept of cultural heritage. After a macro analysis of how guji is understood differently in contemporary and historical China, it comes to cultural-historical discourse analysis of guji recorded in the local gazetteers of the Quzhou city from 1500s to 1920s, revealing its way of categorization as boundary negotiation, and its cultural modes of meaning-making and remembering with or without physical concerns, including the site traceable or otherwise. After a holistic view of this Chinese discourse as reflected in a particular guji, it concludes with a philosophical lens to highlight the alternative existence of heritage in the word guji and the uses of heritage depend much on the uses of language.

1. Introduction; 2. Guji present and guji past; 3. What can guji be? The categorization and boundary negotiation of guji; 4. The materiality/physicality of guji; 5. Guji in a holistic view; 6. Concluding remarks.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.1.2026
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Critical Heritage Studies
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-009-49567-4 / 1009495674
ISBN-13	978-1-009-49567-7 / 9781009495677
Zustand	Neuware