List of figures; Series Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors ; 1. A Manifesto for Museums in Asia; Section A: Reconsidering Knowledge Structures - 2. Numinous Objects and Their (Re)Contextualisation in Local Museologies; 3. Religion on Display: A Comparative Study of the Museum of World Religions and Exhibition Spaces in Temples in Taiwan; 4. Tracing the Lineage of Linear Exhibition Narratives in Chinese Museology; Section B: Rethinking Colonialism - 5. Defining, Designating and Ruling the Other in the Spaces of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, 1823 - 1960; 6. 'Unity in Diversity': Museums and Representation in Myanmar; 7. Swapping Time between Contemporary Ainu and Kaitaku Settler Colonial History; Section C: Localising Museums -- 8.

Transforming Chemde Museum: Monastic Curating and Co-Curating in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Ladakh; 9. Community-based Museums in Thailand and their Indigenous Curatorial Practices; 10. Curating the Dead: A Case Study of Localising Strategies in a Private Museum in Vietnam; 11. Vaacha: Preservation and Erasure in an Indigenous Museum; Section D: Negotiating Politics - 12. The Impact of India's Partition on Museums of the Punjab; 13. Exhibition Diplomacy: The Chinese Experience; 14. Jianchuan Museum Complex: Ethics and Politics in China's Private Museum Practice; 15. Rethinking Heritage Diplomacy on the Maritime Silk Road; 16.

Museums as Sites of Indigenous Revitalisation: Dialogues between National Museums, Indigenous Artisans, and Indigenous Communities in Taiwan; Section E: Embracing Contemporaneity - 17. Intersections between Private Lives, Public Housing, and National Narratives: Community Museums in Hong Kong and Singapore; 18. A Systematic View on Digital Museum Practices with Activity Theory: Exploring the Contradictions That Museum Practitioners Experience in the Republic of Korea; 19. From Digitisation to Digital Repatriation: A Case Study of International Dunhuang Project; 20. Post-disaster Practices in Japanese Museums after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami; Index.