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Réf.

41675

Type

conference item

Titre

Kanyu (Feng-shui): The forgotten perspective in the understanding of intangible setting in China's heritage sites

Langues

English

Auteurs

Ding, Yuan

Date

2005

Pages

8 p.

Titre de conférence

15th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Monuments and sites in their setting - conserving cultural heritage in changing townscapes and landscapes’

Lieu de conférence

Xi'an, China

Date de conférence

17 – 21 oct 2005

Mots-clés

historic sites / setting / intangible heritage / conservation of historic sites / feng shui

Pays mentionnés

China

Monuments et sites

The Forbidden City, Beijing, China

N° Patrimoine mondial

439

Résumé en anglais

Being the spirit of China’s architecture traditionally and the substituting of "superstition" currently, Kanyu (Feng-shui) is an obvious example of the controversy among the China’s monument architecture in world heritage list: on one hand, the external aspects of them, such as facades or technical skills, are highly evaluated and acknowledged; on the other hand, the internal aspects, such as the intangible setting, are fading consciously or unconsciously with the change of cultural dimension. Through the analysis of Kanyu(Feng-shui) in history, the thesis tries to make transparent of the trajectory of the fading of intangible setting since China involved in the intercultural context, and lays emphasis on impact of the cultural controversies and movements from 1840, such as the controversy on east and west cultures in the later Qing dynasty, New Cultural Movement, and Cultural Revolution.

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