ABSTRACT
Kim and Zoh bring together a team of contributors to analyse the role of heritage studies across Asia, and its impact on Asia and its constituent countries.
Is there such a thing as ‘Asian heritage’? Is it more helpful to understand Asia as a single unit, or as a set of sub- regions? What can we learn about Asia’s present through its archaeology and heritage? Covering a wide range of countries, including Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, the contributors to this book address these key questions. In doing so they look at a number of critical issues, such as UNESCO World Heritage status, cultural propaganda, cultural erasure and difficult heritage. While addressing Asia’s past they also observe key issues within present- day Asia, further providing conceptual and practical insights into the methods that are being applied to the study of Asia’s heritage today.
A valuable resource for scholars and students of Asian history and culture, archaeology, heritage studies, anthropology and religious studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|75 pages
Examining Asia's heritage in the contemporary world
part Two|138 pages
Critical and specific issues in Asia's heritage management
chapter 5|36 pages
Silk Road narratives in East Asia
chapter 6|30 pages
Archaeology, politics and diplomacy in Afghanistan
chapter 7|23 pages
Asia's difficult heritage-making between nationalism and transnationalism
chapter 8|19 pages
Political uses of sacred heritage at the Shwedagon Pagoda in British Burma
chapter 9|28 pages
Rights to heritage and the environment in Thailand
part Three|86 pages
Archaeological advances in Southeast Asia