Protecting Asia’s Heritage: Yesterday and Tomorrow Ethnicity Prepared by an expert on

Prepared by an expert on Burmese design and architecture

the growing Japanese presence in Thailand

where I was given the grandiose title of adjunct professor in English

primarily among highland minorities

” Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands examines their cultural and personal assumptions while emphasizing their remarkable lives and considers their contributions to a body of knowledge that has important contemporary significance

Protecting Asia’s Heritage: Yesterday and Tomorrow Ethnicity Prepared by an expert onAsias splendid heritage is at riskfrom rapid economic growth, government neglect, and poorly managed tourism. But some people have become deeply, passionately, and actively involved in protecting Asias heritageas activists, organizers, critics, teachers, artists, and entrepreneurs. In this book, twelve principal authors, all Asians, from eleven of the regions countries, present their experience of what has been done in the past, and their ideas on