Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development: Volume 12 Issue 1

Guest editorial: Heritage interpretation, conflict and reconciliation in East Asia

Yujie Zhu, William Logan

Heritage interpretation, conflict and reconciliation in East Asia: global issues in microcosm

William Logan

Despite being the intellectual foundation on which the notion of heritage is built and a critical element in all programmes aimed at heritage protection, interpretation as a…

Shifting borders of memory: Japan’s Industrial Heritage Information Centre

Edward Boyle

This article examines the borders of memory inherent to a Japanese World Heritage site, and their significance for the 2020 opening of the Industrial Heritage Information Center…

Hot interpretations of difficult heritage: the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre in China

Yujie Zhu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the construction of national heritage through the interpretation of sites and events, with a particular focus on hot interpretation at…

Ancient routes, new dream: the Silk Roads and China's Belt and Road Initiative

Fengqi Qian

The paper aims to contribute to the current research on China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from a historical point of view. The paper investigates why the history of the Silk…

Memory, memorials and the Mongols in Japanese imagination

Li Narangoa

This paper analyses how the history of the Mongol invasions of Japan in the 13th century was used to create a collective national memory of modern Japan and how individuals and…

Indigenous heritage in diplomacy: repositioning Taiwan in the Austronesian network and its cultural implications

Shu-Mei Huang

This paper illustrates how Taiwan has tried to mobilize its prehistory Austronesian linguistic heritage and indigenous cultural memories to reposition itself in the Asia-Pacific…