Achieving Dialogue through Transnational World Heritage Nomination

Vileikis, Ona

doi:10.1002/9781118486634.ch34

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“…Even if the nomination is not successful, meetings and workshops for preparing nominations bring institutions and experts from different countries together and contribute to information sharing, communication, negotiations, and knowledge production over what the Silk Roads mean, where the routes can be found, and how to preserve or reconstruct them. The development of an information sharing and management system in Central Asia was one prominent outcome of transnational heritage dialogue (Vileikis, 2016).…”

Section: Unesco's Silk Roads Project and China's Initiativementioning

confidence: 99%

A Geocultural Power Competition in UNESCO’s Silk Roads Project: China’s Initiatives and the Responses From Japan and South Korea

Nakano

2022

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

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Since Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, China has increasingly engaged in UNESCO’s Silk Roads project. China’s emphasis on its western routes signals its strategic interest in the reconstruction of its historical connections that matches China’s global networking in Eurasia, the Middle East, and Europe. However, whether China will successfully reformulate the international visions of the past, present, and future for its benefit remains an open question. This article focuses on the responses from Japan and South Korea, both of which hold critical positions as the owners of eastern Silk Roads heritage and the funders of UNESCO’s Silk Roads heritage studies and World Heritage nomination assistance. Extending the conceptual framework of memory infrastructure to the study of heritage politics and diplomacy highlights the competitive aspect of a transnational heritage project in shaping and reshaping historical and contemporary geographical landscapes.

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Section: Unesco's Silk Roads Project and China's Initiativementioning

confidence: 99%