1st Edition
The Rise of Private Museums and Heritage in East and Southeast Asia Understanding Memory and Transformation
1. Introduction
Graeme Were and Pieter ter Keurs
2. The Intimacy of Museums
Michael Rowlands
3. A Solo Effort? Collecting Ethnic Minority Artefacts of/for Local Communities Amidst Southwest China’s “Museum Fever”
Luo Yu
4. Private Museums as Patrons of National Heritage: Two Cases from South Korea
Kyung hyo Chun
5. Non-state Museums in Vietnam: A History of their Development
Nguyen Hai Ninh
6. Private and Community Museums: In Search of an Explanatory Model
Pieter ter Keurs
7. A Diasporic Tradition in the Development of Private Museums in Greater China
Cangbai Wang
8. Curating Potent Objects in the Monsopiad Cultural Village in Sabah, East Malaysia
Yunci Cai
9. Reinhabiting the Spaces of Memory: Private Museums, Memory and Repair in Vietnam
Graeme Were
10. The Making of a ‘Great Museum Slave’: Private Museums and Social Media in China
Lisheng Zhang
11. Performative Uses of Heritage Photography in the Cultural Trend of Historic Relic Sites Exploration in Contemporary China
Hui Zhang
12. Afterword: Heritage as inalienable wealth between the private and the public
Knut Rio
Biography
Graeme Were is an Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bristol, UK.
Pieter ter Keurs is professor of Museums, Collections and Society at Leiden University, Netherlands.
