The Heritage Corridor: A Transnational Approach to the Heritage of Chinese Migration

ISBN-13: 9780367543150 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 130 str.

Denis Byrne

Opis

The Heritage Corridor argues for a transnational approach to investigating and recording heritage places that emerge from histories of migration. Addressing the material legacy of migration, the book also relates it to issues of contemporary importance.

Spis treści

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Transborder lives and materialities; The distributed materiality of migration; Dream houses in Zhongshan; Venerable ancestors and seagoing gods; Diasporic modernity; Making heritage in the transnational landscape of migration; Index.

O autorze

Denis Byrne is Associate Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. With a focus on Asia and Australia, he works across the fields of archaeology, critical heritage studies and the environmental humanities, currently with a particular interest in heritage-making by recent migrant and coastal reclamations as an Anthropocene legacy. His most recent book is Counterheritage: Critical Perspectives on Heritage Conservation in Asia.