World Heritage Cultural Landscapes:An Old or a New Concept for China?

作     者：Feng Han 

作者机构：College of Architecture and Urban PlanningTongji UniversityShanghaiChina 

出 版 物：《Built Heritage》 (建成遗产（英文）)

年 卷 期：2018年第2卷第3期

页      面：68-84页

学科分类：05[文学] 0503[文学-新闻传播学] 

基　　金：Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFC0503308) 

主　　题：World Heritage cultural landscape China Historic Urban Landscape rural landscape 

摘      要：The term‘cultural landscape’has many different meanings for different people throughout the *** has been widely circulated since the international recognition of cultural landscapes extended to World Heritage prominence in 1992 with three categories of cultural landscapes of outstanding universal value defined as the‘combined works of nature and of man’.However,the application of World Heritage Cultural Landscapes(WHCLs)encountered difficulties in *** paper reviews the history of nature-related World Heritage conservation in the country,examines the cross-cultural confusion of World Heritage practice from Chinese traditional cultural perspective of culture and nature relationship to address to the international bewilderment about China’s two-decade absence from *** paper also reviews the efforts taken by China to dispel the conceptual confusion,what has been inspired by and contributed to the WHCLs in the recent ***,the paper examines what China and WHCLs can mutually benefit from each other based on the common concerns of sustainable development and harmonious human-nature relationship in the future.