Heritage and ethnic identity
Preserving Chinese cemeteries in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5701320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chuo Li (0000-0001-9318-8716, Mississippi State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 642-659 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13527258.2014.973059 |
| OpenAlex | W2021370903 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 26 |
This paper critically examines the role of ethnic community in the process of heritage management and preservation. Drawing on two heritage projects dedicated to historic Chinese American cemeteries – the nineteenth-century Chinese Memorial Shrine in Los Angeles, California and Concordia Chinese Cemetery located in El Paso, Texas – this study examines how heritage serves as a central referent in constructing a collective identity that gives continuity and political unity to an ethnic community. Heritage preservation, as a practice connecting the past and present, provides us with insight not only into the historic meanings attached to heritage, but also the contemporary values and ideologies of communities with regard to their efforts in interpreting the past. This paper highlights the relationship between identity politics and heritage, suggesting that heritage becomes a vital means of identity formation which helps articulate cultural traditions in the face of a dominant national culture that essentialises ethnic pasts
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Cultural heritage · Cultural heritage management · Cultural identity · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Ideology · Industrial heritage · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Religious Tourism and Spaces
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The new Chinatown
CHAPTER IV. Public Memory in an American City
The Global Ethnopolis
A Geography of Heritage
The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History
The Invention Of Tradition
Vancouver’s Chinatown
Immigrant Acts
Mining heritage and tourism
Making the ‘last Chinaman’
Chinatown
Ethnicity and the American Cemetery
Place, Race, and Story
Ethnicity, authenticity, and invented traditions
Introduction
Conserving Hong Kong's Heritage
Developing the heritage tourism product in multi-ethnic cities
Power relations and community involvement in landscape-based cultural heritage management practice
The recognition and misrecognition of community heritage
The politics of community heritage
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |