Rouran Zhang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3782934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rouran Zhang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rouran |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhang |
| SIGNATURE | ZHANG R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shenzhen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8648-7945 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Converging Narratives on the Yangshao Culture
This chapter investigates how official Chinese media, and newspapers in particular, have interpreted the historical and cultural value of the Yangshao Culture. It also analyses discussions on social networking platforms, focusing on Zhihu 知乎, to analyse how the Yangshao Culture has been discussed in public discourse over the past decade. Our analysis demonstrates that traditional media outlets, including People’s Daily and research articles inclu…
Mapping multiple stakeholder-perceived cultural ecosystem services in coastal landscapes along the Maritime Silk Road
The coastal cultural landscape reflects the interaction between human activities and the natural environment, providing diverse Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES). However, perceptions of CES by multiple stakeholders are rarely considered in coastal cultural landscape management, especially in developing countries, hence impeding conflict resolution for sustainable landscape governance. This study analyses the spatial patterns of CES valued by res…
Chinese Heritage in the Making
Characteristics of urban agricultural heritage sites
Comparing landscape values and heritage stakeholders
In the World Heritage nomination process, the UNESCO World Heritage Programme has historically privileged the discourse of international experts and downplayed that of stakeholders. Taking West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou as an example, this paper compares and analyses the perspectives expressed by international experts, Chinese heritage professionals, local residents and domestic tourists. In the World Heritage nomination and evaluation …
Benefit or burden? The world heritage listing of libo karst, China
Heritage is a profoundly political field of practice. We draw on the case of Libo Karst, a component of the World Heritage listed South China Karst, to analyse the ways in which politics has permeated the work of heritage from the global to the local and from authorised regimes to community practices. The study is based on interviews conducted between 2013 and 2020 with Chinese officials and local residents to understand the experience of World H…
How tourist power in social media affects tourism market regulation after unethical incidents
The Charm of a Thousand Years’
Despite the promulgation of the UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage in 1972, widely lauded for being the first international convention to include natural and cultural heritage, the separation of cultural and natural heritage persists. Equally, within the top-down ‘authorised’ global and national heritage systems, the values of the elite and powerful continue to be emphasised while the understand…
Cultural landscape meanings. The case of West Lake, Hangzhou, China
In this paper, we examine nuances in ways of seeing and understanding the World Heritage listed West Lake Cultural Landscape, Hangzhou China, through different eyes. The paper briefly introduces the current debate on claimed differences and convergences between Western and Eastern mind sets in heritage conservation and then moves into reviewing the human side of landscape. We then examine the perspectives of international heritage agencies such a…
Chinese Heritage Sites and Their Audiences
Bonding and dissonance
World Heritage listing and changes of political values
World Heritage themes and frameworks, as well as the criteria for assessing the ‘outstanding universal values’ (OUV) of World Heritage sites, have been extensively criticised for being Eurocentric. Asia is a region of extraordinary levels of cultural, religious and ethnic diversity, which often comes into conflict with UNESCO understandings of heritage. Due to the influence of UNESCO, and the persuasiveness of the heritage discourses it authorise…
World Heritage listing and changes of political values
World Heritage themes and frameworks, as well as the criteria for assessing the ‘outstanding universal values’ (OUV) of World Heritage sites, have been extensively criticised for being Eurocentric. Asia is a region of extraordinary levels of cultural, religious and ethnic diversity, which often comes into conflict with UNESCO understandings of heritage. Due to the influence of UNESCO, and the persuasiveness of the heritage discourses it authorise…
Bonding and dissonance
Characteristics of urban agricultural heritage sites
How tourist power in social media affects tourism market regulation after unethical incidents
Benefit or burden? The world heritage listing of libo karst, China
Heritage is a profoundly political field of practice. We draw on the case of Libo Karst, a component of the World Heritage listed South China Karst, to analyse the ways in which politics has permeated the work of heritage from the global to the local and from authorised regimes to community practices. The study is based on interviews conducted between 2013 and 2020 with Chinese officials and local residents to understand the experience of World H…
Cultural landscape meanings. The case of West Lake, Hangzhou, China
In this paper, we examine nuances in ways of seeing and understanding the World Heritage listed West Lake Cultural Landscape, Hangzhou China, through different eyes. The paper briefly introduces the current debate on claimed differences and convergences between Western and Eastern mind sets in heritage conservation and then moves into reviewing the human side of landscape. We then examine the perspectives of international heritage agencies such a…
World Heritage listing and changes of political values
World Heritage themes and frameworks, as well as the criteria for assessing the ‘outstanding universal values’ (OUV) of World Heritage sites, have been extensively criticised for being Eurocentric. Asia is a region of extraordinary levels of cultural, religious and ethnic diversity, which often comes into conflict with UNESCO understandings of heritage. Due to the influence of UNESCO, and the persuasiveness of the heritage discourses it authorise…
Bonding and dissonance
Cultural landscape meanings. The case of West Lake, Hangzhou, China
In this paper, we examine nuances in ways of seeing and understanding the World Heritage listed West Lake Cultural Landscape, Hangzhou China, through different eyes. The paper briefly introduces the current debate on claimed differences and convergences between Western and Eastern mind sets in heritage conservation and then moves into reviewing the human side of landscape. We then examine the perspectives of international heritage agencies such a…
Chinese Heritage Sites and Their Audiences
How tourist power in social media affects tourism market regulation after unethical incidents
The Charm of a Thousand Years’
Despite the promulgation of the UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage in 1972, widely lauded for being the first international convention to include natural and cultural heritage, the separation of cultural and natural heritage persists. Equally, within the top-down ‘authorised’ global and national heritage systems, the values of the elite and powerful continue to be emphasised while the understand…
Comparing landscape values and heritage stakeholders
In the World Heritage nomination process, the UNESCO World Heritage Programme has historically privileged the discourse of international experts and downplayed that of stakeholders. Taking West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou as an example, this paper compares and analyses the perspectives expressed by international experts, Chinese heritage professionals, local residents and domestic tourists. In the World Heritage nomination and evaluation …
Benefit or burden? The world heritage listing of libo karst, China
Heritage is a profoundly political field of practice. We draw on the case of Libo Karst, a component of the World Heritage listed South China Karst, to analyse the ways in which politics has permeated the work of heritage from the global to the local and from authorised regimes to community practices. The study is based on interviews conducted between 2013 and 2020 with Chinese officials and local residents to understand the experience of World H…
Chinese Heritage in the Making
Characteristics of urban agricultural heritage sites
Converging Narratives on the Yangshao Culture
This chapter investigates how official Chinese media, and newspapers in particular, have interpreted the historical and cultural value of the Yangshao Culture. It also analyses discussions on social networking platforms, focusing on Zhihu 知乎, to analyse how the Yangshao Culture has been discussed in public discourse over the past decade. Our analysis demonstrates that traditional media outlets, including People’s Daily and research articles inclu…
Mapping multiple stakeholder-perceived cultural ecosystem services in coastal landscapes along the Maritime Silk Road
The coastal cultural landscape reflects the interaction between human activities and the natural environment, providing diverse Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES). However, perceptions of CES by multiple stakeholders are rarely considered in coastal cultural landscape management, especially in developing countries, hence impeding conflict resolution for sustainable landscape governance. This study analyses the spatial patterns of CES valued by res…
China (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Cultural heritage (8 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Tourism (7 works) · Cultural heritage management (6 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Industrial heritage (5 works)