{"product_id":"a-chinese-discourse-of-heritage-by-song-hou-9781009495646","title":"A Chinese Discourse of Heritage","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Element presents an alternative approach to critical heritage studies by attending to forgotten or transformed cultural, historical ideas of heritage. It focuses on the Chinese term \u003cem\u003eguji\u003c\/em\u003e (古迹 ancient traces or vestiges), perceived today as the same as the modern concept of cultural heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter a macroanalysis of how \u003cem\u003eguji\u003c\/em\u003e is understood differently in contemporary and historical China, it comes to cultural-historical discourse analysis of \u003cem\u003eguji\u003c\/em\u003e recorded in the local gazetteers of Quzhou from the 1500s to the 1920s, revealing its way of categorisation as boundary negotiation and cultural modes of meaning-making and remembering, either with or without physical remains or a verifiable site.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter a holistic view of this Chinese discourse as reflected in a particular \u003cem\u003eguji\u003c\/em\u003e, it concludes with a philosophical lens to highlight the alternative existence of heritage in the word \u003cem\u003eguji\u003c\/em\u003e and the uses of heritage as the uses of language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47397680283884,"sku":"9781009495646","price":75.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/bdad99f6ca9197753b6bd904e7712a0a.jpg?v=1773720045","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/a-chinese-discourse-of-heritage-by-song-hou-9781009495646","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}