China: Cultural Heritage Management

Comments on ‘historical imaginaries, historic urban branding, and the local state in China: rejuvenation discourse, manufactured heritage and simulacrascapes’ by Andrew Malcolm law

“…Law notes in this article that the local state may include 'related state networks of developers, retailers, tourist officials, town planners, architects, and designers' . The local state is not the direct agent of the national AHD in China (Su and Chen 2018); rather, it is situated in a mixed position between the top-down national AHD and local unofficial heritage discourse/ practice. Here, the identity of the local state matters.…”