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General

Tai Kwun Conversations: Chinese Cultural Heritage Series

This series aims to introduce the audience to some of the recent heritage conservation and management projects in China, focusing on the paradigm shift in the field and the values of Chinese cultural heritage. The case studies demonstrate that heritage conservation practices follow national policies and emerging international trends while incorporating a wide range of uses and interests to make the projects locally relevant, including intangible cultural heritage of everyday life, living traditions and practices, and continuing communities.

This session focuses on a comparative study of the World Heritage site Kaiping Diaolou and Villages in Kaiping county, Guangdong province, and the Cangdong Project, a heritage conservation project that won the 2015 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Award for Cultural Heritage Conservation (award of merit). From the perspectives of national development strategies and community building, the speaker shares experience of heritage conservation and management in different local areas, highlighting the importance of "people and culture" and "respect and dignity" in the processes.

The conversations will be conducted in Cantonese.

Speaker:

Dr. Selia Tan | Professor, Institute for Guangdong Qiaoxiang Studies, Wuyi University

2:30pm – 3:30pm	Talk
3:30pm – 4pm	Q&A

Notes
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Speakers Bio

Dr. Selia Tan

Dr. Tan Jinhua, Selia got her PhD degree at the Department of Architecture, the University of Hong Kong, and studied Chinese American history as a visiting scholar in Stanford University, Azusa Pacific University of the United States and University of British Columbia, Canada. She is now a researcher and professor focusing on overseas Chinese history and heritage conservation in the Institute for Guangdong Qiaoxiang Studies at Wuyi University, China.

Tan is a consultant on cultural heritage conservation projects in China and overseas. She was an important consultant of architectural conservation projects during the World Cultural Heritage listing applications of Kaiping Diaolou (succeeded in 2007) and Fujian Tulou (succeeded in 2008). The Cangdong Heritage Education Centre under the Cangdong Project established by Tan was awarded the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Cultural Heritage Conservation Award of Merit in 2015.

Tai Kwun Conversations: Chinese Cultural Heritage Series - Conserving the Ancestral Villages of Overseas Chinese in Wuyi Region, Guangdong