Is colonial heritage negative or not so much?Debating heritage discourses and selective interpretation of Kulangsu,China  

作　　者：Ran Wei Fang Wang 

机构地区：[1]Department ofGeography and Environment,London School of Economics andPolitical Science,Houghton Street,LondonWC2A 2AE,UK. [2]College ofArchitecture and Landscape Architecture,Peking University,No.5 Yiheyuan Road,Haidian District,Beijing 100871,People’s Republic of China. [3]NSFC‑DFG Sino‑German Cooperation Group onUrbanization and Locality(UAL),College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture,Peking University,Beijing 100871,People’s Republic of China.

出　　处：《Built Heritage》2022年第3期4-16,共13页建成遗产（英文）

基　　金：the National Social Science Fund of China(Grant No.21AZD033);the Key Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52130804).

摘　　要：Heritage is in essence dissonant,especially colonial heritage in postcolonial nations.Via questionnaire surveys and inter‑views,this study investigates Kulangsu in Xiamen,China,a colonial heritage site mainly developed in the 19th and 20th centuries,to unveil the local government’s authorised heritage discourse(AHD)of the site and how tourists perceive the colonial past of Kulangsu and construct their own heritage discourse(s).Results show that,when considering the colonial history of the site,neither the AHD promoted by the authorities nor the tourists’lay discourses are necessarily negative.However,tension implicitly arises between the tourists’demand for comprehensive heritage information and the authorities’selective interpretation of the site.Although the AHD afects lay discourses to some extent,most tourists expect the authorities to present more complete and neutral information about heritage so they can refect and forge their own conception of colonial legacies.From a critical heritage studies perspective,this tension refects the power imbalance between the authorities and the tourists and reminds the authorities and heritage experts to rethink heritage tourism and conservation in terms of heritage interpretation.This paper,therefore,calls for additional refection on the legitimacy of selective interpretation,which implicates a complex process of intricate reasoning that is underpinned by the power imbalance between the authorities and the tourists,ultimately resulting in an AHD.

关 键 词：Heritage tourism Colonial heritage Authorised heritage discourse Heritage interpretation Postcolonialism Critical heritage studies 

分 类 号：G112[文化科学]