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Sources (Notes):
1. https://web.archive.org/web/200802281...\\_761572407/Xi’an.html
2. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/2...
3. Meskell, Lynn. "UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention at 40: Challenging the Economic and Political Order of International Heritage Conservation." Current Anthropology 54, no. 4 (2013): 483-94. Accessed April 10, 2021. doi:10.1086/671136.
4. https://whc.unesco.org/en/convention/
5. https://whc.unesco.org/en/committee/
6. https://news.stanford.edu/2018/11/19/...
7. http://moocs.southampton.ac.uk/shipwr...

Further Reading (Bibliography):

US Withdraw from UNESCO: https://www.archpaper.com/2019/01/uni...

Brumann, C. 2012a. Exploring UNESCO-scape: how things happen in the World Heritage arena. Paper delivered at the conference on Shaping Heritage- Scapes: Processes of Patrimonialization in a Globalized World. University of Lausanne, Switzerland, August 27–28, 2012.

Fasulo, L. 2009. An insider’s guide to the UN. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

https://journals.openedition.org/terr...
Meskell, Lynn. A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020. https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...

Brumann, Christoph. The Best We Share: Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena. New York: Berghahn, 2021. https://berghahnbooks.com/title/Bruma...

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