Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Context and policy -- 1 Contextualizing heritage discourse in current China -- 1.1 Chinese cultural heritage: a few introductory notes -- 1.2 The Chinese heritage chain: a short reconstruction -- 1.3 Administration matters: institutional design and the division of labor within the heritage chain -- 2 Early conversations and professional practices regarding large-scale heritage sites -- 2.1 Early efforts in Chinese heritage protection (1920s-1946) -- 2.2 Formation period: strengthening protection (1949-1978) -- 2.3 Development and protection since the opening up (1978-2004) -- 2.4 The emergence of the dayizhi concept in Chinese heritage practice: some final remarks -- 3 Setting the dayizhi policy -- 3.1 The role of the Five Year Plans in the heritage field -- 3.2 Main contents of the dayizhi policy: the publication of the 11th and 12th FYPs -- 3.3 The policy and the list of potential dayizhi -- 3.4 The funding mechanisms -- 3.5 The dayizhi policy evolution: from conservation to "conservational interpretation" -- Appendix to Chapter 3: the 11th Five Year Plan -- 4 A three-level discussion on the dayizhi policy: toward unanticipated consequences? -- 4.1 The dayizhi policy in principle: commonalities and specificities -- 4.2 A general literature review prior to the CACH research -- 4.3 Discourse on the dayizhi policy at the kick-off day: things in the early research agenda -- 5 Desk and field work: the research methodology -- 5.1 The CACH research project: expectations, design, and roles -- 5.2 Implementing the CACH research project -- 5.3 Further methodological choices regarding this book -- Part II Researching actual impacts: field work and micro analysis.

6 Luoyang and the Sui and Tang Capital City: complex heritage inside a crucial district -- 6.1 Introduction: the Sui and Tang Capital City within the Luoyang district -- 6.2 Dayizhi and Luoyang -- 6.3 Luoyang: the threats of development on a fragile widespread heritage city -- 6.4 Operationalizing the policy: the S&T project from policy to action -- 6.5 Zooming in on the process: S&T before and after the dayizhi policy, and the issue of "how" things are done -- 6.6 Dayizhi conservation policy at S&T: lost in translation? -- 7 Xi'an and Daming Palace -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Xi'an and its role in the dayizhi discussion: an aggregate view -- 7.3 Daming Palace: a controversial model -- 7.4 Conclusion -- 8 Niuheliang: from dayizhi to parkization in a rural area -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The social construction of heritage meanings: the 30-year evolution of Niuheliang -- 8.3 Major challenges -- 8.4 Parkization, and the hidden history: ignoring professional standards -- 8.5 Conclusion: how "well-done" projects bring up a worrying future -- 9 Xinjiang: the tensions between heritage, landscape conservation, and social impacts in a harsh climate -- 9.1 Introduction: the context of heritage preservation -- 9.2 An aggregate view of dayizhi projects in Xinjiang -- 9.3 Major achievements within the dayizhi policy -- 9.4 A micro focus: zooming in -- 9.5 Conclusion -- 10 Nanyuewang Palace site -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Before the dayizhi policy -- 10.3 After dayizhi policy -- 10.4 Conclusion -- 11 Yanxiadu Capital site -- 11.1 Introduction to the site -- 11.2 The socioeconomic context: a rural area, with a slow pace of development -- 11.3 Site conservation before dayizhi policy -- 11.4 The impacts of dayizhi policy on the site -- 11.5 Conclusion: an overall assessment of the dayizhi impacts at Yanxiadu -- 12 Understanding dayizhi practices from the field work.

12.1 Major findings from the field work: dayizhi practices from case studies -- 12.2 Tentative internal comparison of dayizhi case studies: an inferred typology -- 12.3 Understanding dayizhi policy impacts from the field work -- 12.4 Looking for explanations: driving forces underneath the typology -- Part III Dayizhi from policy to practices: a discussion -- 13 Assessing the dayizhi policy: the aggregate view -- 13.1 An aggregate look inside the dayizhi database: assessing actual impacts -- 13.2 The nature of expenditure: which activities were funded -- 13.3 The actual selection of sites: the partial implementation of the lines/circle district policy -- 13.4 Issues in planning procedures: a few insights -- 13.5 Understanding dayizhi policy implementation from aggregate data available -- 14 Dayizhi policy: addressing some unanticipated driving forces -- 14.1 Introduction: between intended and realized policies -- 14.2 Land issues: the hidden powerful factor in dayizhi policy -- 14.3 Financial and budgetary issues, general versus dayizhi -- 14.4 Organizational and cultural heritage governance -- 14.5 A summary of major implications -- Concluding remarks -- beyond dayizhi -- Bibliography -- Index.