Heritage Conservation and China's Belt and Road Initiative

Victor C.M. Chan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Yew-Foong Hui is a Professor in the Department of Sociology, at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong. Desmond Hui is a Professor and Founding Department Head of Art and Design at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Kazem Vafadari is Professor of Tourism and Hospitality at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan.

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

1.

Introduction

Heritage conservation and China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Between politics and professionalism

Victor C.M. CHAN, Yew-Foong HUI, Desmond HUI and Kazem VAFADARI

Part I: The “new discourses” of silk roads

2.

Silk road expertise and the geopolitics of connectivity

Tim WINTER

3.

The construction of the silk roads as World Heritage in China

Jieyi XIE

4.

The silk roads: A mirror of contestation and a metaphor of ‘revival’ in regional shared heritage

Sandra USKOKOVIC

Part II: Negotiating the inscription and management of heritage sites

5.

Archaeological heritage management along the silk roads: Ancient and modern context

Tim WILLIAMS

6.

Reviving the ancient maritime silk road: The politics of heritage instrumentalization in Asia’s port cities of Quanzhou and Melaka

Yunci CAI

7.

Negotiating architectural restoration approaches: Differences between Chinese and Singaporean conservation specialists

Kang Shua YEO

8.

The importance of Iran’s Yazd province for the Silk Road: Past, Present and Future

Kazem VAFADARI and Nastaran EHSANI

Part III: China’s Heritage diplomacy along Belt and Road initiative

9.

Chinese archaeology in Egypt: Between eurocentrism, de-westernisation and decolonalisation

Christian LANGER

10.

Silk Roads heritage diplomacy: UNESCO & China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Victor C.M. CHAN

11.

The maritime silk road: tourism, heritage, symbols and the people-to-people dimension of China’s ‘heritage diplomacy’ in Indonesia

Angela TRITTO and Punto WIJAYANTO

12.

Heritage diplomacy along the maritime silk roads: the case of Muslim sites in Southern China

Pascale BUGNON

Index