1st Edition

Transnational Cultural Flows within the Collaborative Chinese Cultural Basin Heritage, Memory and Identity

Edited By Khun Eng Kuah Copyright 2027
210 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Kuah advances the "Collaborative Cultural Basin" framework to analyze the transnational flow of Chinese cultural elements—such as religion, popular culture, food, museum exhibits, and educational knowledge—within the global Chinese Diaspora and mainland China. The book highlights how these cultural elements are increasingly utilized as tools of cultural power and diplomacy, fostering local and... Read more

 

1. Introductory Overview

Khun Eng KUAH

 

2. Collaborative Chinese Cultural Basin Model

Khun Eng KUAH

 

3. Remaking “Cultural China” in the 20th Century: Dynamic Flows of Chinese Diaspora Communal Festivals between Singapore and the Hometowns

CHOI Chi-Cheung

 

4. Science Diplomacy and Transnational Educational Connectivity: European Cultural Flows and Mainland Chinese Engagement

Laerke Helene Ehlers MIKKELSEN and Shahamak REZAEI

 

5. Manila Binondo Food Tour: Gastronationalism of Chinese Diasporas

Jane YUGIOKSING

 

6. Bridging Cultures in the Digital Age: Reframing Content Creators as Cultural Intermediaries

XING Jing

 

7. Diaspora Chinese Popular Cultural Flows as Cultural Power

Khun Eng KUAH

 

8. Heritagization of Chinese Migrants in Belgium. The Case Study of the Expo “Happy Family” Red Star Line Museum, Antwerp

Ching Lin PANG

 

9. From Frontline to Cultural Diplomacy: Soft Power and the Regeneration of Matsu’s Battlefield Cultural Landscape, 1992-Present

CHIANG Bo-wei

 

10. Overseas Chinese Museum: how China advances public diplomacy in the new era?

ZHOU Ying

 

Biography

Khun Eng Kuah, retired professor and independent researcher, is adjunct professor at the Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore. She has held positions as distinguished professor at Jinan University (Guangzhou, China), professor and Head of the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Monash University Malaysia, University of Hong Kong and University of Melbourne; and visiting positions at Harvard-Yenching Institute, University of Paris Cíte and Oxford University. Her key research include (1) Chinese Diaspora-China Connections (hometown connections, migration and identity, Chinese entrepreneurship, heritage and traditional Chinese medicine and herbal tea; and (2) Reformist Buddhism, Buddhist compassion and philanthropy in East and Southeast and Asia.