The Museum in Asia

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Series preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
1 A manifesto for museums in Asia
Section A Reconsidering knowledge structures
	2 Sacred objects and their (re)contextualisation in local museologies
	3 Religion on display: A comparative study of the museum of world religions and exhibition spaces in temples in Taiwan
	4 Tracing the lineage of linear exhibition narratives in Chinese museology
Section B Rethinking colonialism
	5 Defining, designating and ruling the other in the spaces of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, 1823–1960
	6 ‘Unity in diversity’: Nuancing colonial and postcolonial narratives, museums and representation in Myanmar and beyond
	7 Swapping time between contemporary Ainu and Kaitaku settler colonial history
Section C Localising museums
	8 Transforming Chemrey museum: Monastic curating and co-curating in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Ladakh
	9 Community-based museums in Thailand and their Indigenous curatorial practices
	10 Curating the dead: A case study of localising strategies in a private museum in Vietnam
	11 Vaacha: Preservation and erasure in an Indigenous museum
Section D Negotiating politics
	12 The impact of India’s Partition on museums of the Punjab
	13 Exhibition diplomacy: The Chinese experience
	14 Jianchuan museum complex: Memory, ethics and politics in a Chinese private museum
	15 Rethinking heritage diplomacy on the maritime Silk Road
	16 Museums as sites of Indigenous revitalisation: Dialogues between national museums, Indigenous artisans and Indigenous communities in Taiwan
Section E Embracing contemporaneity
	17 Intersections between private lives, public housing and national narratives: Community museums in Hong Kong and Singapore
	18 A systematic view on digital practices in museums: Exploring the contradictions that museum practitioners experience in the republic of Korea
	19 From digitisation to digital repatriation: A case study of International Dunhuang Project
	20 Post-disaster practices in Japanese museums after the 2011 great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
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