Acknowledgments Mapping the Chinese Heritage Regime: Ruptures, Governmentality, and Agency Marina Svensson and Christina Maags SECTION I: Re-imagining the past: Contested memories and contemporary issues Telling stories in a borderland: the evolving life of Ma Bufang’s Official Residence Susette Cooke From a Symbol of Imperialistic Penetration to a Site of Cultural Heritage: The ‘Italian-Style Exotic District’ in Tianjin Hong Zhang Historic Urban Landscape in Beijing: The Gulou Project and Its Contested Memories Florence Graezer Bideau and Haiming Yan SECTION II: Celebrating and experiencing the cultural heritage: Top-down and bottom-up processes and negotiations Creating a Race to the Top: Hierarchies and Competition within the Chinese ICH Transmitters System Christina Maags Heritagizing the Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Festival in Hong Kong Selina Chan Recognition and Misrecognition: The Politics of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Southwest China Tami Blumenfield Holy Heritage: Identity and Authenticity in a Tibetan Village Sonja Laukkanen SECTION III: Public debates in heritage work: Possibilities and limitations for plural voices and new forms of engagements Heritage Visions of Mayor Geng Yanbo: Re-creating the City of Datong Jinze Cui Revitalization of Zhizhu Temple: Policies, Actors, and Debates Lui Tam Heritage 2.0: Maintaining Affective Engagements with the Local Heritage in Taishun Marina Svensson