TY - JOUR
KW - commodities
KW - fake
KW - Intangible cultural heritage (ICH)
KW - luxury
KW - markets
AU - Christina Maags
AB - Can traditional cultural practices thrive if they are commercialised? Or should the state protect them from “the market”? This study investigates these questions by studying the marketisation of traditional handicrafts in the tourism sector of Nanjing municipality (Jiangsu Province, China). Building on Boltanski and Esquerre’s (2020) work on the “enrichment economy,” I find that stateled marketisation efforts have simultaneously raised and distorted the value of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) commodities in China. Many ICH inheritors are stuck in the middle: although they benefit from enhanced recognition and valorisation of ICH products, they face difficulties in competing with “fake” and luxury ICH commodities. ICH commodities are thus characterised by an “in-between” status – between the enriched and the mass economy.
BT - China Perspectives
DO - 10.4000/chinaperspectives.12184
LA - English
M1 - 3
N1 - Publisher: Francais sur la Chine Contemporaine China
N2 - Can traditional cultural practices thrive if they are commercialised? Or should the state protect them from “the market”? This study investigates these questions by studying the marketisation of traditional handicrafts in the tourism sector of Nanjing municipality (Jiangsu Province, China). Building on Boltanski and Esquerre’s (2020) work on the “enrichment economy,” I find that stateled marketisation efforts have simultaneously raised and distorted the value of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) commodities in China. Many ICH inheritors are stuck in the middle: although they benefit from enhanced recognition and valorisation of ICH products, they face difficulties in competing with “fake” and luxury ICH commodities. ICH commodities are thus characterised by an “in-between” status – between the enriched and the mass economy.
PY - 2021
SP - 7
EP - 17
T2 - China Perspectives
TI - Common, Luxury, and Fake Commodities: Intangible Cultural Heritage Markets in China
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85116853387&doi=10.4000%2fchinaperspectives.12184&partnerID=40&md5=9b509c21288b3802fd24362211f17562
VL - 2021
SN - 20703449 (ISSN)
ER -