Museum Representations of Chinese Diasporas is the first book to analyse the recent upsurge in museums on Chinese diasporas in China. Examining heritage-making beyond the nation-state, the book provides a much-needed, critical examination of China's engagement with its diasporic communities.

Cangbai Wang is Reader in Chinese Studies, School of Humanities at the University of Westminster in the UK.

Introduction

Part I: The Symbolic Museum

Chapter 1 The birth of the Overseas Chinese History Museum of China

Chapter 2 The representation of the Chinese diasporas as a 'national self/other'

Part II: The Branding Museum

Chapter 3 Negotiating 'hot' and 'cool' authentication in diasporic heritage-making at a qiaoxiang

Chapter 4 Repatriation of Chinese cultural relics as a site for place-making and identity construction

Part III: The Memory Museum

Chapter 5 The stamp of identities: negotiating diasporic Chinese subjectivity in philatelic space

Chapter 6 How does a house remember? Materialising memories of return migration at a huaqiao farm

Part IV: The Im/possible Museum

Chapter 7 The im/possibility of museumifying the Chinese diasporas in South China

Conclusion