Title: Heritage management, tourism, and governance in China : managing the past to serve the present /
Authors: Shepherd, Robert J., 1958-; Yu, Lawrence.
Publisher: Springer,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Historic preservation China.; Heritage tourism China.; Cultural property Protection China; Historic sites China
Abstract: This monograph analyzes current cultural resource management, archeological heritage management, and exhibitionary practices and policies in the People's Republic of China. Academic researchers, preservationists, and other interested parties face a range of challenges for the preservation of the material past as rapid economic and social changes continue in China. On the one hand, state-supported development policies often threaten and in some cases lead to the destruction of archeological and cultural sites. Yet state cultural policies also encourage the cultivation of precisely such sites.