Protecting Asias Heritage

Asian activists, organizers, critics, teachers, artists, and entrepreneurs have become passionately involved in protecting Asias heritage. In this book, twelve principal authors from eleven of the regions countries present their experience of what has been done in the past and their ideas on what should be done in the future. Chapters cover Siams temples, Korean religious murals, Beijings neighborhoods, Lao textiles, Javanese ruins, Cambodian dance, old Bangkok and George Town, Philippine creative arts, Calcuttas architecture, Chinas salt industry, and the Burmese cat. This book records the start of a conversation that promises to transform the protection of Asias heritage.