Dr Yujie Zhu
Research interests
- Cultural anthropology
- Critical heritage studies
- Anthropology of tourism
- Historiography
- Social memory and cultural identity
- Ethnicity
- Performance studies
- Religious practice
- China
Biography
Yujie Zhu is a Lecturer at Center for Heritage and Museum Studies, Australian National University. He is interested in the politics of cultural heritage, and its relation to issues like ethnic tourism, urbanisation, nationalism and religious practices. He is the vice chair of the Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, and an executive committee member of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies.
Researcher's projects
The Politics of Cultural Heritage in China
Little attention has been paid to the role that cultural heritage plays in politics and policy outcomes. Based on critical analysis of heritage policies, interviews with policy-makers, and interactions with practitioners and scholars in China, this project aims to analyze the ways in which cultural heritage facilitates China’s diplomacy, nation-building, economic strategy and local governance. By approaching heritage as a space of cooperation, negotiation and contestation, this research will add conceptual and empirical depth to the literature on the politics of cultural heritage. It will also provide Australia with a new analytical economic and socio-cultural framework to engage with China and the region.
Media link:
http://www.anu.edu.au/events/heritage-and-china
A talk at Cornell Contemporary China Initiative
https://vimeo.com/163445476
Current student projects
Silvia Bozzato
Imagine Dragons, the Transformation of Australian Imaginary of China 2010 – 2016
Jieyi Xie
The Silk Roads or Economic Belt: An Analysis of the Interaction Between China’s World Heritage and its Economic and Political Ambitions
Shengjin Xie
Pursuing good life in this world: the aspiration of Daoist clerics in Longhu Shan, China
Yun Zhou
Constructing a Divine Domesticity: Woman’s Messenger (1912-1951) and Her Republican Dreamers
Publications
- Zhu, Y 2017, 'Travelling to the Past: Xi'an and the Tang Imperial City', in Leanne White (ed.), Commercial Nationalism and Tourism: Selling the National Story, Channel View Publications, Bristol; Blue Ridge Summit, pp. 64 - 74.
- Zhu, Y 2016, 'Heritage Making in Lijiang: Governance, Reconstruction and Local Naxi Life', in Christoph Brumann & David Berliner (ed.), World Heritage on the Ground: Ethnographic Perspectives, Berghahn Books, New York, pp. 78-96.
- Zhu, Y 2016, 'Authenticity and Heritage Conservation in China: Translation, Interpretation, Practices', in Katharina Weiler, Niels Gutschow (ed.), Authenticity in Architectural Heritage Conservation: Discourses, Opinions, Experiences in Europe, South and East Asia, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, Switzerland, pp. 187-200.
- Zhu, Y 2016, 'Book Review 'A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China' by Jenny Chio', American Anthropologist, vol. 118, no. 3, pp. 655-656.
- Zhu, Y 2015, 'The Construction and Introspection of the Discourse System of Inheritance: Three Cultural Heritage Practices', in Yu Xinjian (ed.), Cultural Heritage Research, Sichuan University Press, Chengdu, China, pp. 19-26.
- Zhu, Y & Hua, Y 2015, 'Transforming Tradition: Performing Wedding Ritual in Modern China', in Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost (ed.), Rituals and Traditional Events in the Modern World, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pp. 51-66.
- Zhu, Y 2015, 'Cultural Effects of Authentication: Heritage Practices in China', International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 594-608.
- Zhu, Y 2015, 'Performance, tourism', in Jafar Jafari and Honggen Xiao (ed.), Encyclopedia of Tourism, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, Online, pp. 1-2.
- Zhu, Y & Salazar, N 2015, 'Heritage and Tourism', in Lynn Meskell (ed.), Global Heritage: A Reader, Wiley Blackwell, Chichester, UK, pp. 240-258.
- Zhu, Y 2015, 'Performing Heritage: Authenticity in Tourism', Journal of Southwest University for Nationalities, vol. 2015, no. 6, pp. 1-9.
- Zhu, Y 2014, 'Heritage and Tourism in Global Discourse', Journal of Southwest University for Nationalities, vol. 7, no. 2014, pp. 7-13.
- Smith, L and Zhu, Y. 2014, 'Discourse and Process : A Perspective of Critical Heritage Studies', Journal of Baise University, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 77-82. (published in Mandarin)
- Zhu, Y & Li, N 2013, 'Groping for Stones to Cross the River: Governing Heritage in Emei', in Blumenfield T, Silverman H (ed.), Cultural Heritage Politics in China, Springer New York, New York USA, pp. 51-71.
- Zhu, Y 2012, 'Shifting images: The World Heritage City Lijiang, China', Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, vol. 67, no. April 2012, pp. 58-68.
- Zhu, Y 2012, 'When global meets local in tourism of China - Cultural performances in Lijiang as case studies', Journal of China Tourism Research, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 302-319.
- Zhu, Y 2012, 'Authenticity in heritage conservation: Interpretation and local practice', Guizhou Social Science, vol. 268, no. 4, pp. 18-24.
- Zhu, Y 2012, 'Tourism gaze and urban imaginaries in China', Tourism Tribune, vol. 11, no. 2012, pp. 14-23.
- Zhu, Y 2012, 'Performing heritage: Rethinking authenticity in global tourism', Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 1495-1513.
- 2012 Zhu, Y. What Can We Bring to the World? [Review of the article "What Marco Polo Forgot: Chinese Contemporary Art Reconfigures the Global", by Aihwa Ong]. Current Anthropology, 53 (4), 489-490.
- Zhu, Y 2011, 'Some thoughts on comparison of heritage conservation in historic cities in China and the West: A transcultural perspective', Southeast Culture, vol. 221, no. 3, pp. 118-122.
- Zhu, Y 2009, 'Enhancing Inter-Agency and Stakeholder Coordination for Joint Action in Sustainable Management at World Heritage Sites', Sustainable Tourism Management at World Heritage Sites- Enhancing Interagency and Stakeholder Coordination for Joint Action, ed. Gabor Vereczi, Zhu Yujie, Wang Shuo, UNTWO, Madrid Spain.
