Yongding County in southeast China is famous for its large, multistory communal vernacular buildings known as tulou, translated ‘rammed earth building.’ These structures were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008. Living in Heritage introduces readers outside of China to this classic example of local Chinese architecture in the context of contemporary heritage preservation and tourism.
Focusing on the Yongding Hakka Tulou Folk Culture Village, which is part of Hongkeng Village, author Lijun Zhang examines the on-the-ground processes and effects of heritage-making, UNESCO-inspired tourism, and how locals negotiate the dramatic transformation of their daily, social, and economic lives. Within an age of cultural change beginning at the start of the 21st century, Living in Heritage explores how the tulou phenomenon as heritage has and continues to be transformed into cultural, economic, or political capital. Through her careful study, Zhang reveals how the blurring of formerly distinct domains—private and public, local and global—gives rise to a living museum that now relies on insiders and outsiders to preserve their way of life.
Living in Heritage offers an in-depth ethnographic account of the people dwelling and working within traditional tulou architecture in the 21st century.
Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgments
Note on Romanization, Translation, and Names
Introduction
1. Localness in the Time of Great Transformation
2. Tulou as Vernacular Architecture
3. Tulou as Home and Lived Experience
4. World Heritage Nomination and the Institutionalization of Tulou
5. Everyday Engagement with Heritage Process and Tourism Activities
6. Tulou as New Resource and Power Leverage
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Circa l’autore
Lijun Zhang is Assistant Professor of Folklore at George Mason University. She is author of Chinese Folk Art and Crafts and editor (with Marsha Mac Dowell) of Quilts of Southwest China and (with Ziying You) of Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice.
Altri ebook dello stesso autore / Editore
146.627 Ebook in questa categoria
