Xiaoling Zhang co-leads the Heritage and Communication cluster at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, where she also heads the Department of Media and Communication. She has co-edited several influential volumes, including China's External Communication and Relationship Building (Zhang & Schultz, 2022, Routledge); China-Africa Relations: Building Images through Cultural Cooperation, Media Representation and Communication (Bachelor & Zhang, 2017, Routledge); China's Soft Power in Africa: Promotion and Perceptions (Zhang, Wasserman & Mano, 2016, Palgrave Macmillan); and China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution: Social Changes and State Responses (Zhang & Zheng, 2009, Routledge). She also co-edits the Routledge Book Series Communicating China: Past, Present and Future.Xin Liu is the Director of the Research Centre for China's Heritage Studies and a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Lancashire. Her research area covers public diplomacy, cultural studies, media and communication, and China's relations with the West. Her major publications include multiple research papers in top-rated journals such as Journal of Contemporary China and Asia Studies Review, and two monographs: China's Cultural Diplomacy: A Great Leap Outward? (Routledge) and Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War: A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries (Routledge), whose Chinese version is due to be published in 2026.

• Xiaoling Zhang: Introduction: Heritage, Power, and Dialogic Encounters I. Heritage and Foreign Policy: Strategic Visions and Global Positioning 1: Tim Winter: The Global Civilization Initiative: a Platform for Conflict Recovery Heritage Diplomacy? 2: Xiaoling Zhang: Chinese New Year in the United Kingdom: Heritage, Local Agency, and Soft Power II. Heritage as Dialogue: Encounters, Practices, and Transcultural Engagements 3: Yujie Zhu: From Possession to Relation: Rethinking the Governance of Intangible Heritage 4: Xin Liu and Peter Lloyd: Exploring Cultural Connections between Chinese and English Heritages through Tea, Teaware, and Woodcut Printing 5: Li Zhang and Jingyi Zhu: Using Tea as a Medium for Heritage Diplomacy 6: Angela Lewis: Heritage Diplomacy through Wushu: A Case Study of Chinese Martial Arts in Kenya III. Heritage Spaces, Innovations, and Institutional Practices 7: Yat Ming Loo, Xinyi Li, and Yanning Xiang: Hybridized Memories and Intercultural Heritage Dialogue: The Five Avenues History Museum in Tianjin 8: Yue Zhu and Jiawen Han: Heritage Illuminated: Suzhou Gardens as a Cultural Dialogue through Night Tours 9: Anrong Dang, Baihui Zhuo, Zhi Zhang, Yang Weng, and Andrew Moser-Samson: Digital Twins as Heritage Infrastructure: Conservation, Communication, and Governance in China IV. Media Representations and the Politics of Global Perception 10: Yupei Zhao and Qiuxian Li: Between Cooperation and Contestation: The Politics of Shared Heritage in Dietfurt 11: Xianwen Kuang: Projections and Perceptions: How Chinese and International News Media Frame Traditional Chinese Medicine Xin Liu: Conclusion: Heritage as Dialogue-Reflections and Horizons

Xiaoling Zhang co-leads the Heritage and Communication cluster at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, where she also heads the Department of Media and Communication. She has co-edited several influential volumes, including China's External Communication and Relationship Building (Zhang & Schultz, 2022, Routledge); China-Africa Relations: Building Images through Cultural Cooperation, Media Representation and Communication (Bachelor & Zhang, 2017, Routledge); China's Soft Power in Africa: Promotion and Perceptions (Zhang, Wasserman & Mano, 2016, Palgrave Macmillan); and China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution: Social Changes and State Responses (Zhang & Zheng, 2009, Routledge). She also co-edits the Routledge Book Series Communicating China: Past, Present and Future.Xin Liu is the Director of the Research Centre for China's Heritage Studies and a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Lancashire. Her research area covers public diplomacy, cultural studies, media and communication, and China's relations with the West. Her major publications include multiple research papers in top-rated journals such as Journal of Contemporary China and Asia Studies Review, and two monographs: China's Cultural Diplomacy: A Great Leap Outward? (Routledge) and Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War: A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries (Routledge), whose Chinese version is due to be published in 2026.

• Xiaoling Zhang: Introduction: Heritage, Power, and Dialogic Encounters I. Heritage and Foreign Policy: Strategic Visions and Global Positioning 1: Tim Winter: The Global Civilization Initiative: a Platform for Conflict Recovery Heritage Diplomacy? 2: Xiaoling Zhang: Chinese New Year in the United Kingdom: Heritage, Local Agency, and Soft Power II. Heritage as Dialogue: Encounters, Practices, and Transcultural Engagements 3: Yujie Zhu: From Possession to Relation: Rethinking the Governance of Intangible Heritage 4: Xin Liu and Peter Lloyd: Exploring Cultural Connections between Chinese and English Heritages through Tea, Teaware, and Woodcut Printing 5: Li Zhang and Jingyi Zhu: Using Tea as a Medium for Heritage Diplomacy 6: Angela Lewis: Heritage Diplomacy through Wushu: A Case Study of Chinese Martial Arts in Kenya III. Heritage Spaces, Innovations, and Institutional Practices 7: Yat Ming Loo, Xinyi Li, and Yanning Xiang: Hybridized Memories and Intercultural Heritage Dialogue: The Five Avenues History Museum in Tianjin 8: Yue Zhu and Jiawen Han: Heritage Illuminated: Suzhou Gardens as a Cultural Dialogue through Night Tours 9: Anrong Dang, Baihui Zhuo, Zhi Zhang, Yang Weng, and Andrew Moser-Samson: Digital Twins as Heritage Infrastructure: Conservation, Communication, and Governance in China IV. Media Representations and the Politics of Global Perception 10: Yupei Zhao and Qiuxian Li: Between Cooperation and Contestation: The Politics of Shared Heritage in Dietfurt 11: Xianwen Kuang: Projections and Perceptions: How Chinese and International News Media Frame Traditional Chinese Medicine Xin Liu: Conclusion: Heritage as Dialogue-Reflections and Horizons

Xiaoling Zhang co-leads the Heritage and Communication cluster at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, where she also heads the Department of Media and Communication. She has co-edited several influential volumes, including China's External Communication and Relationship Building (Zhang & Schultz, 2022, Routledge); China-Africa Relations: Building Images through Cultural Cooperation, Media Representation and Communication (Bachelor & Zhang, 2017, Routledge); China's Soft Power in Africa: Promotion and Perceptions (Zhang, Wasserman & Mano, 2016, Palgrave Macmillan); and China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution: Social Changes and State Responses (Zhang & Zheng, 2009, Routledge). She also co-edits the Routledge Book Series Communicating China: Past, Present and Future.Xin Liu is the Director of the Research Centre for China's Heritage Studies and a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Lancashire. Her research area covers public diplomacy, cultural studies, media and communication, and China's relations with the West. Her major publications include multiple research papers in top-rated journals such as Journal of Contemporary China and Asia Studies Review, and two monographs: China's Cultural Diplomacy: A Great Leap Outward? (Routledge) and Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War: A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries (Routledge), whose Chinese version is due to be published in 2026.

• Xiaoling Zhang: Introduction: Heritage, Power, and Dialogic Encounters I. Heritage and Foreign Policy: Strategic Visions and Global Positioning 1: Tim Winter: The Global Civilization Initiative: a Platform for Conflict Recovery Heritage Diplomacy? 2: Xiaoling Zhang: Chinese New Year in the United Kingdom: Heritage, Local Agency, and Soft Power II. Heritage as Dialogue: Encounters, Practices, and Transcultural Engagements 3: Yujie Zhu: From Possession to Relation: Rethinking the Governance of Intangible Heritage 4: Xin Liu and Peter Lloyd: Exploring Cultural Connections between Chinese and English Heritages through Tea, Teaware, and Woodcut Printing 5: Li Zhang and Jingyi Zhu: Using Tea as a Medium for Heritage Diplomacy 6: Angela Lewis: Heritage Diplomacy through Wushu: A Case Study of Chinese Martial Arts in Kenya III. Heritage Spaces, Innovations, and Institutional Practices 7: Yat Ming Loo, Xinyi Li, and Yanning Xiang: Hybridized Memories and Intercultural Heritage Dialogue: The Five Avenues History Museum in Tianjin 8: Yue Zhu and Jiawen Han: Heritage Illuminated: Suzhou Gardens as a Cultural Dialogue through Night Tours 9: Anrong Dang, Baihui Zhuo, Zhi Zhang, Yang Weng, and Andrew Moser-Samson: Digital Twins as Heritage Infrastructure: Conservation, Communication, and Governance in China IV. Media Representations and the Politics of Global Perception 10: Yupei Zhao and Qiuxian Li: Between Cooperation and Contestation: The Politics of Shared Heritage in Dietfurt 11: Xianwen Kuang: Projections and Perceptions: How Chinese and International News Media Frame Traditional Chinese Medicine Xin Liu: Conclusion: Heritage as Dialogue-Reflections and Horizons