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Reconsidering Cultural Heritage in East Asia Reconsidering Cultural Heritage in East Asia EDITED BY Akira Matsuda & Luisa Elena Mengoni Reconsidering Cultural Heritage in East Asia Edited by Akira Matsuda and Luisa Elena Mengoni ]u[ ubiquity press London Published by Ubiquity Press Ltd. 6 Windmill Street London W1T 2JB www.ubiquitypress.com Text © The Authors 2016 First published 2016 Cover design by Amber MacKay Front cover image: Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Background cover image: geralt / Pixabay Printed in the UK by Lightning Source Ltd. Print and digital versions typeset by Siliconchips Services Ltd. ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-909188-88-4 ISBN (PDF): 978-1-909188-89-1 ISBN (EPUB): 978-1-909188-90-7 ISBN (Mobi/Kindle): 978-1-909188-91-4 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/baz This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Com- mons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA. This license allows for copying any part of the work for personal and commercial use, providing author attribution is clearly stated. The full text of this book has been peer-reviewed to ensure high academic standards. For full review policies, see http://www.ubiquitypress.com/ Suggested citation: Matsuda, A and Mengoni, L E (eds.) 2016 Reconsidering Cultural Heritage in East Asia. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.5334/baz. License: CC-BY 4.0 To read the free, open access version of this book online, visit http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/baz or scan this QR code with your mobile device: Contents Acknowledgements v Contributors vii Introduction: reconsidering cultural heritage in East Asia (Akira Matsuda and Luisa Elena Mengoni) 1 Considering undercurrents in Japanese cultural heritage management: the logic of actualisation and the preservation of the present (Masahiro Ogino) 15 Evolving and contested cultural heritage in China: the rural heritagescape (Marina Svensson) 31 The emergence of ‘cultural heritage’ in modern China: a historical and legal perspective (Guolong Lai) 47 Ethnic heritage in Yunnan: contradictions and challenges (Fuquan Yang) 87 Cultural heritage in Korea – from a Japanese perspective (Toshio Asakura) 103 The concept of ‘cultural landscapes’ in relation to the historic port town of Tomo (Kazuo Mouri) 121 Shaping Japan’s disaster heritage (Megan Good) 139 Acknowledgements This book has its origin in the workshop and conference ‘Cul- tural Heritage? in East Asia’, organized by the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC), the Japan Foundation and the International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology, with support from the School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the UCL Institute of Archaeology, in London and Norwich in March 2010. The event commemorated the tenth anniversary of the foundation of SISJAC. The success of the event led to the publication of this book. Some of the papers delivered at the workshop and conference were rewritten for the book, while others were specially commis- sioned to prompt a wider consideration of issues in cultural herit- age in East Asia. vi Reconsidering Cultural Heritage in East Asia We express our heartfelt thanks to SISJAC, without the gener- ous support of which neither the event nor this book could have been materialized. We dedicate this book to SISJAC. We would also like to thank the authors of the individual contri- butions for their great patience while this book has been prepared. We acknowledge the comments offered by the two anonymous reviewers, which helped us improve the book. Contributors Toshio Asakura is a Professor at Ritsumeikan University and Professor Emeritus at the National Museum of Ethnology in Japan. He has published extensively on social structures in East Asia, in particular Korea and Japan. He has been undertaking a long-term comparative research project on culinary culture in Korea and was awarded the Ok-gwan (Jewelled Crown) Order of Cultural Merit of the Republic of Korea in 2013. Yang Fuquan is Professor at the Yunnan Academy of Social Sci- ences, Vice President of the Association of Chinese Ethnology and the President of the Association of Yunnan for Naxi Studies. He is an expert on Chinese ethnic history with a focus on Naxi studies and has published extensively. His publications include Stories in Modern Naxi (VGH Wissenshaftsverlag 1988), A Study of Dongba Religion (Dongba jia tong lun) (Zhonghua shu ju 2012) and A Study on Suicide for Love among the Naxi People (Yu long qing shang: Naxi zu de xun qing yan jiu) (Yunnan renmin chubanshe 2008). viii Reconsidering Cultural Heritage in East Asia Megan Good is an independent researcher in the field of heritage studies with a particular focus on Japan. She earned her BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her MA from the University of East Anglia. Guolong Lai is a member of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study (2014−2015) and Associate Pro- fessor of Chinese Art and Archaeology at University of Flor- ida. He earned a BA in International Law at Jilin University in China, an MA in Chinese Archaeology and Paleography at Beijing University and a PhD in Chinese Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr Lai has worked as a graduate intern and served as Consultant to the China projects at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles. He recently contributed to and co-edited Collectors, Collections & Collecting the Arts of China (University Press of Florida 2014), a volume based on a symposium that he organized. He has published extensively on early Chinese bronzes and mortuary culture. He is the author of Excavating the Afterlife: The Archaeology of Early Chinese Religion (University of Washington Press 2015). Akira Matsuda is an Associate Professor at the Department of Cultural Resources Studies, the University of Tokyo. He earned his PhD in public archaeology at University College London and is an Academic Associate at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. He serves as the Secretary of the World Archaeological Congress. His research focuses on the meaning, (re)presentation and use of the past in contemporary society. Luisa Elena Mengoni is Head of the V&A Gallery, Shekou and currently based in Shenzhen, where she coordinates the Contributors ix collaboration between the V&A and China Merchants Shekou. She formerly worked as a curator of Chinese art at the V&A and con- sultant on heritage projects in China. Holding a PhD in Chinese archaeology from University College London (UCL), she pub- lished on identity and ethnicity, Chinese export art and collecting history. Her current research interests focus on new developments of Chinese design and crafts, and the emergence of new museum models and creative hubs in China. Kazuo Mouri is a researcher and writer with a strong inter- est in cultural heritage in Japan, especially site and landscape conservation. Previously he was a journalist at NHK (Japanese Broadcasting Corporation) and served as its senior commentator specialising in cultural properties. Presently he is the Director of the Institute of Port-Town Culture in Setouchi. Masahiro Ogino is a Professor of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University. He earned a PhD in Sociology from the University of Paris VII. His research interests are focused on the sociology of culture, the study of capitalism and the history of social theory. He has served as the President of La Société Franco-Japonaise de Sociologie since 2004. In addition to his publications in Japanese, he has published two books in French. One book concerns the Great Hanshin Earthquake (Fissures 1998); the other is a study of a small village in France (Un Japonais en Haute-Marne 2011). His second Japanese book, a study of fraud, has been translated into English (Scams and Sweeteners 2007). Marina Svensson is Professor of Modern China Studies at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. Her research focuses on human rights, legal issues, cultural her- itage debates and practices, documentary film and media and x Reconsidering Cultural Heritage in East Asia communication studies. Her major publications include Debat- ing Human Rights in China: A Conceptual and Political History (2002), and she co-edited books such as The Chinese Human Rights Reader (co-edited with Stephen Angle 2001), Gender Equality, Citizenship and Human Rights: Controversies and Chal- lenges in China and the Nordic Countries (co-edited with Paul- ine Stoltz, Sun Zhongxin and Qi Wang 2010), Making Law Work: Chinese Laws in Context (co-edited with Mattias Burell 2011) and Chinese Investigative Journalists’ Dreams: Agency, Autonomy, and Voice (co-edited with Elin Sæther and Zhi’an Zhang 2013). Introduction: reconsidering cultural heritage in East Asia Akira Matsuda* and Luisa Elena Mengoni† *University of Tokyo †Victoria and Albert Museum The seven chapters of this book examine a range of issues related to cultural heritage in East Asia, including perspectives from the fields of anthropology, ethnology, sociology and art history. While these contributions reflect the different disciplinary backgrounds of the authors, there is one element that pertains to all of them: they do not regard cultural heritage as a given but rather as some- thing that is made and being constantly remade. The book as a whole can therefore be understood to consider how cultural her- itage is conceptualised, materialised, experienced and negotiated How to cite this book chapter: Matsuda, A and Mengoni, L E 2016 Introduction: reconsidering cultural heritage in East Asia. In: Matsuda, A and Mengoni, L E (eds.) Reconsidering Cultural Heritage in East Asia, Pp.
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