Making Places Sacred
Author/editor: Matt Tomlinson and Yujie Zhu
Year published: 2025
Although claims to sacredness are often linked to the power of a distant past, the work of making places sacred is creative, novel, renewable, and reversible. This book highlights how sacred space is newly made. It is often associated with blood, death, and geographic anomalies, yet no single…
China’s Heritage through History: Reconfigured Pasts
Author/editor: Yujie Zhu
Year published: 2024
China’s Heritage through History employs a longue durée approach to examine China’s heritage through history. From Imperial to contemporary China, it explores the role of practices and material forms of the past in shaping social transformation through knowledge production and transmission. The…
CHMS Activity Report 2020-2021
Author/editor: The Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies
Year published: 2022
The Centre is pleased to present its second biennial activity report covering the years 2020-2021.
Emotional Heritage: Visitor Engagement at Museums and Heritage Sites
Author/editor: Laurajane Smith
Year published: 2021
Emotional Heritage brings the issues of affect and power in the theorisation of heritage to the fore, whilst also highlighting the affective and political consequences of heritage-making. Drawing on interviews with visitors to museums and heritage sites in the United States, Australia and England…
Heritage and Religion in East Asia
Author/editor: Shuli-Wang, Michael Rowlands; Yujie Zhu
Year published: 2021
Heritage and Religion in East Asia examines how religious heritage, in a mobile way, plays across national boundaries in East Asia and, in doing so, the book provides new theoretical insights into the articulation of heritage and religion. Drawing on primary, comparative research carried out in…
Heritage Tourism: From Problems to Possibilities
Author/editor: Yujie Zhu
Year published: 2021
As one of the world's fastest growing industries, heritage tourism is surrounded by political and ethical issues. This research explores the social and political effects and implications of heritage tourism through several pertinent topics. It examines the hegemonic power of heritage tourism and…
Notions of Heritage
Author/editor: Jessica Mace and Yujie Zhu
Year published: 2021
What is heritage ? This is the most fundamental but difficult question to be answered in heritage studies. It has been addressed many times, but singular definitions always seem to come up short. This book contributes to understandings of heritage as a multifarious construct. It sees it not as…
Activity Report 2018-2019
Author/editor: The Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies
Year published: 2020
The Centre is pleased to present its first activity report covering the years 2018-2019.
Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past
Author/editor: Yujie Zhu; Christina Maags
Year published: 2020
Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past studies the impact of heritage policies and discourses on the Chinese state and Chinese society. It sheds light on the way Chinese heritage policies have transformed the narratives and cultural practices of the past to serve the interests of the…
Migrant, Multicultural and Diasporic Heritage: Beyond and Between Borders
Author/editor: Alexandra Dellios and Eureka Henrich
Year published: 2020
Migrant, Multicultural and Diasporic Heritage explores the role heritage has played in representing, contesting and negotiating the history and politics of ethnic, migrant, multicultural, diasporic or ‘other’ heritages in, within, between and beyond nations and national boundaries. …