I am currently writing a book Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past, to be published by Routledge in 2019. This project analyzes the ways in which cultural heritage facilitates China’s nation-building, economic strategy and local governance. By approaching heritage as a space of cooperation, negotiation and contestation, this research will add conceptual and empirical depth to the literature on the politics of cultural heritage. 

I was invited to give a talk at East Asia Program at Cornell University.

http://www.cornell.edu/video/yujie-zhu-cultural-heritage-fever-in-china