英文摘要 |
The West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou started with the dredging project of the Tang Dynasty literary giant Bai Juyi and the construction of the Bai Causeway in the 9th century. After continual interaction between man and nature for more than a millennium, the West Lake Landscape reached its climax in the Qing Dynasty and has become the most famous ‘lake with cultural meaning’ in Chinese history, taking on the function of a prominent spiritual home. In 2011, it was successfully inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, as a cultural landscape, considered an outstanding example of scenery with cultural significance, characterized as a “clearly designed landscape”, “continuing landscape” and “associative landscape.” Based on the understanding of the nomination, protection and management of West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou, this paper introduces two aspects. First, the paper reviews the process of West Lake Cultural Landscape’s applying for World Heritage, including research into Outstanding Universal Value, the idea and methods used to restore and interpret heritage sites, and so on. Second, the paper discusses the future of West Lake Cultural Landscape protection and management, particularly paying attention to establishing a Monitoring and Warning System and developing strategies for community participation. In the ''post bidding-for-heritage era'', we further explore the protection and management model of World Heritage, as well as the issues of promoting positive interaction between heritage and city and truly achieving sustainable development of protection and management of the West Lake Cultural Landscape. |