Heritage Management in Mainland China
Since the 1980s the Chinese government has made considerable efforts to preserve and manage the tangible and intangible heritage in mainland China, including historic villages, ancient cities, and archaeological remains. To date, China has 35 World Heritage, and hundreds of thousands of national and provincial monuments and heritage properties.
Besides tourism, what are the social, political, economic, and ideological impetuses for the popularity of heritage conservation in mainland China today? As economic development and heritage preservation both demand land and other resources, can heritage sites survive in the wave of modernization and globalization in China? The government controls the conservation process and often ignores the local community’s interests and voices, so will conservation cause new social conflicts? What are the impacts of conservation upon local communities, their cultures and the local environment?
This project will investigate:
1) diverse interpretations of the cultural significance of heritage sites by different stakeholders, and the causal factors and consequences of this diversity;
2) the impact of local ecological, economic, social and political structures, as well as modernization and globalization upon the management of heritage properties, and
3) the impact of the management upon the local communities、local cultures and environments.

中國大陸的文化遺產保育
自1980年代以來，中國政府致力於保育和管理中國大陸的物質和非物質文化遺產，包括歷史村落，歷史文化名城和考古學遺存。到目前為止，中國已經有35項世界遺產，還有數以十萬計的文物古蹟。
除了旅遊業發展的需要之外，文化遺產保育在中國大陸的“興起”是否還有社會、政治、經濟和意識形態的原因？經濟發展和遺產保育都要求更多的土地和資源，在全球化和現代化大潮衝擊之下的中國文化遺產是否能夠被保留？中國的文化遺產保育通常由政府控制，民間團體的利益和聲音甚少受關注，這樣的保育和管理方式是否會引起新的社會矛盾？遺產保育對地方的環境、社區生活和文化又有什麼影響？
本項目旨在分析：
1）不同的利益持份團體對文化遺產重要性的多元詮釋及其原因；
2）現代化、全球化和地方生態、經濟結構、社會組織和政治架構對文化遺產保育和管理的影響；
3）文化遺產管理對地方社區、地方文化和環境的影響。

(For more information, please contact: luliedan@cuhk.edu.hk )

Related publications [相關論文]:
Lu, Tracey

• 2007 "The Management of Two World Heritage Sites: Xidi and Hongcun in Anhui, China", in World Heritage: Global Challenges, Local Solutions, pp.87-94, eds. by White, Roger and John Carman. Oxford, United Kingdom: BAR International Series.
  
• 2008 "Some Issues on the Management of Archaeological Sites in Mainland China", Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, Vol. 10 (4): 353-366.
  
• 2010 "Governing Heritage in the Process of Development Sites in South China". Peer-reviewed paper presented at the International Conference "Heritage 2010-Heritage and Sustainable Development" to be held at Evora, Portugal in June 2010.