Routledge handbook of heritage in Asia / edited by Patrick Daly and Tim Winter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Heritage in Asia: converging forces, conflicting values Tim Winter and Patrick Daly Part I: Challenging Conservation: the view from Asia 2. Same same but different? A roundtable discussion on the philosophies, methodologies, and practicalities of conserving cultural heritage in Asia Kecia Fong, Tim Winter, Hae Un Rii, Pinraj Khanjanusthiti, and Aparna Tandon 3. The unbearable impermanence of things: reflections on Buddhism, cultural memory and heritage conservation Maurizio Peleggi 4. From multi-religious sites to mono-religious monuments in South Asia: the colonial legacy of heritage management Himanshu Ray 5. Exotification, conservation and the history of natural heritage in Indonesia Timothy P. Barnard 6. Beyond Band Aids: The need for specialized materials conservation expertise in Asia Jeff Cody and Kecia Fong Part II: The Politics and Governance of Heritage 7. States, governance and the politics of culture: World Heritage in Asia William Logan 8. "Selecting the refined and discarding the dross": The post-1990 Chinese leadership's attitude towards cultural tradition Jiawen Ai 9. Legislating to safeguard Asia's intangible cultural heritage Georgina Lloyd 10. Intangible cultural heritage and peace building in Indonesia and East Timor Birgit Bräuchler 11. The revitalization of Khmer ethnic identity in Thailand: empowerment or confinement? Alexandra Denes 12. A political-ecological heritage of resource contest and conflict Michael Dove Part III: Rethinking Relationships, Remembrance and Loss 13. Out in the cold? Remembering socialism and global conflict in Asia Colin Long 14. War and revolution as national heritage: "Red Tour" in China Horng-luen Wang 15. The politics of loss and nostalgia in Luang Prabang (Lao PDR) David Berliner 16. Rethinking relationships: world heritage, communities and tourism Robyn Bushell and Russell Staiff 17. Heritage challenges in Asian urban cultural landscape settings Ken Taylor Part IV: Negotiating Modernity and Globalisation 18. Heritage and modernity in India Jyoti Hosagrahar 19. Anti-superstition: Campaigns against popular religion and its heritage in Asia Denis Byrne 20. Globalisation and sacred adivasi landscapes in Eastern India Vinita Damodaran 21. Shifting pilgrim trains and temple-towns in India Kiran Shinde 22. Asian orientalism: perspectives of Buddhist heritage in Japan Aki Toyoyama 23. Fighting modernity: traditional Chinese martial arts and the transmission of intangible cultural heritage Patrick Daly.

"Across Asia today rapid economic and social change means the region's heritage is at once under threat and undergoing a revival as never before. This volume examines heritage as a key component in the unfolding modernities of Asia, moving between analytical scales to address questions of tourism, urban planning, national or ethnic expressions of identity, conflict memorialisation, and biodiversity. For some, heritage has become an effective means for protecting those landscapes, rituals, artefacts or traditional values endangered by rapid socio-economic change. For others, it has emerged as a valuable resource for achieving wider goals such as poverty alleviation, nation building or the cultural profiling of citizens. In certain instances however, heritage protection represents an obstacle inhibiting progress, national unification, or the shedding of unwanted memories. The Routledge Handbook of Heritage in Asia offers an expansive account of the complexities of heritage in relation to a series of wider historical, socio-political, environmental and physical changes. The international team of contributors take an interdisciplinary approach and present both new challenges and new directions for our understanding of contemporary Asia. With chapters covering the entire region, this Handbook will be of interest across a wide range of disciplines including: heritage studies, Asian studies, cultural sociology, religious studies, and social policy in Asia."--Publisher's description.