Marina Svensson is professor of modern China studies at Lund University. Christina Maags is a lecturer of political science with a focus on China and East Asia at Goethe University Frankfurt.

Acknowledgments Mapping the Chinese Heritage Regime: Ruptures, Governmentality, and Agency Marina Svensson and Christina MaagsSECTION 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 CookeFrom a Symbol of Imperialistic Penetration to a Site of Cultural Heritage: The 'Italian-Style Exotic District' in TianjinHong ZhangHistoric Urban Landscape in Beijing: The Gulou Project and Its Contested Memories Florence Graezer Bideau and Haiming YanSECTION 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 MaagsHeritagizing the Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Festival in Hong Kong Selina ChanRecognition and Misrecognition: The Politics of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Southwest China Tami BlumenfieldHoly Heritage: Identity and Authenticity in a Tibetan Village Sonja LaukkanenSECTION 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 CuiRevitalization of Zhizhu Temple: Policies, Actors, and Debates Lui TamHeritage 2.0: Maintaining Affective Engagements with the Local Heritage in Taishun Marina Svensson