Haiming Yan is Associate Research Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage.

“This book brings a wealth of information and spirited discussion to a wide readership and could readily be considered for courses on heritage issues in Asia and globally.” • Asian Perspectives“World Heritage Craze in China makes a unique contribution to Chinese heritage preservation, demonstrating the application and impact of the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage and the present state of the art in this area… This monograph challenges the reader and the profession to reconsider Chinese cultural heritage preservation, and its characteristics and relations with politics and society in China.” • Antiquity“This book makes several important contributions to the heritage literature. It fills a huge gap in the literature and should be required reading for anyone seriously interested in global heritage conservation.” • Diane Barthel-Bouchier, Stony Brook University“It was an eye-opening journey through the complex pathways of international ‘soft power’ playing out in China’s unique landscape of centralized government power and immensely rich and diverse cultural heritage.” • Pei-Lin Yu, Boise State University

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. From Relics to HeritageChapter 2. From World Heritage to National SolidarityChapter 3. Fujian Tulou: From Harmony to HegemonyChapter 4. Mount Songshan: From the Center of Sacred Mountains to the “Center of Heaven and Earth”Chapter 5. The Great Wall: From Ethnic Boundary to Cosmopolitan MemoryConclusion: World Heritage as Discursive InstitutionReferencesIndex