Abstract

In the field of heritage conservation in China, more professional teams and scholars tend to accept the idea of public participation, which seems to have changed the past heritage conservation approaches and mainstream. At the same time, most of the conservation practices are still supported by the Chinese official authorities. Hence, how should we explain such a phenomenon? Can we treat such practices involving the public in China as “NEW” tendencies of heritage conservation? By discussing multiple cases in China, this talk focuses on the intertwined discourses and motivations behind such cases and questions the future of public participation in the field of Chinese heritage conservation.

Speaker: Wang Siyu, is an assistant professor of the School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, director of Public Archaeology and Art Center in Peking University, and research fellow of WHITRAP . His current interests are about critical heritage studies, heritage communities and new museology, and he has published over 50 academic articles about archaeological site management and traditional village preservation in China.

meeting link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81936033210?pwd=GGatGbBRiGp4U4bmvSzERcZvwL3Sph.1#success