Cultural heritage in Chinese qiaoxiang is constructed where Chinese and foreign cultures gather,connecting overseas Chinese with their country of origin.However,conficts concerning this type of heritage comes out freq...Cultural heritage in Chinese qiaoxiang is constructed where Chinese and foreign cultures gather,connecting overseas Chinese with their country of origin.However,conficts concerning this type of heritage comes out frequently,such as house reconstruction clash,host-guest conficts and destructive competition in heritage tourism.The economic and cultural duality of heritage is perceived as the source of intrinsic contestation in heritage tourism,and conficts related to diferent types of heritage may take on diferent appearances and causes.Extant tourism studies have generalised cultural heritage in Chinese qiaoxiang,neglecting the unique characteristics of the diaspora and their corresponding infuence on heritage protection and utilisation,that makes the reasons for these conficts remain unclear.By answering the basic question of what heritage is,this research proposes an analytical framework to understand the intrinsic contestation of cultural heritage tourism in Chinese qiaoxiang.The paper points out that the contradiction between‘ancestral root culture’and modernity and between fow and stillness is the trigger for intrinsic contestation.The paper also summarises the core issues in conficts that need further discussion by answering the questions of‘what is heritage’,‘whose heritage’and‘how to interpret heritage’.The core issues include heritage selection and identifcation,the commercialisation of‘home’,heritage interpretation and so on.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China[project serial number:42001146].
文摘Cultural heritage in Chinese qiaoxiang is constructed where Chinese and foreign cultures gather,connecting overseas Chinese with their country of origin.However,conficts concerning this type of heritage comes out frequently,such as house reconstruction clash,host-guest conficts and destructive competition in heritage tourism.The economic and cultural duality of heritage is perceived as the source of intrinsic contestation in heritage tourism,and conficts related to diferent types of heritage may take on diferent appearances and causes.Extant tourism studies have generalised cultural heritage in Chinese qiaoxiang,neglecting the unique characteristics of the diaspora and their corresponding infuence on heritage protection and utilisation,that makes the reasons for these conficts remain unclear.By answering the basic question of what heritage is,this research proposes an analytical framework to understand the intrinsic contestation of cultural heritage tourism in Chinese qiaoxiang.The paper points out that the contradiction between‘ancestral root culture’and modernity and between fow and stillness is the trigger for intrinsic contestation.The paper also summarises the core issues in conficts that need further discussion by answering the questions of‘what is heritage’,‘whose heritage’and‘how to interpret heritage’.The core issues include heritage selection and identifcation,the commercialisation of‘home’,heritage interpretation and so on.
