Abstract
Abstract. The result of the comparative study on monitoring of culture heritage between China and the world shows that it is imperative for China to carry out Large Ruins monitoring. Some key questions that this paper will consider are: What should be monitored at Large Ruins? How do we build monitoring systems? To answer these questions, this paper, will use the Old Summer Palace ruins as an example and look at its design of monitoring systems and upcoming monitoring activities of its ruins. It will also consider how the Old Summer Palace makes a preliminary attempt to build a monitoring system for one of China’s “Large Ruins” by exploring the aspects of monitoring necessity, identification of monitoring targets, and building of monitoring system of the European-style Palace of the Old Summer Palace.
Highlights
At present, the heritage management system of mainland China has basically formed an architectural system of: “World heritage—Large ruins—national level cultural relics protection units — municipality and county level key cultural relics protection units—other cultural relics protection units”
What will be the content of monitoring and how do we build a Large Ruins monitoring system? Based on the world cultural heritage monitoring activities carried out in China, this paper, by taking the monitoring system of the European-style Palaces of the Old Summer Palace as an example, one of around 150 Large Ruins in China, makes an attempt to answer the above questions
A series of such methods and rules have facilitated world heritage sites to start to establish monitoring systems. It is external pressure both from home and abroad that serves as the important factors for heritage sites of China to carry out monitoring activities. It can be seen from the above mentioned analysis that whereas internal needs for influencing heritage itself and monitoring preservation environment are not the major driving force for the construction of monitoring system., external forces such as the World Cultural Heritage Committee, State Administration of Cultural Heritage, and other international cultural heritage protection organizations are the major determinants for China to carry out monitoring activities on world heritage sites
Summary
The heritage management system of mainland China has basically formed an architectural system of: “World heritage—Large ruins—national level cultural relics protection units — municipality and county level key cultural relics protection units—other cultural relics protection units”. There is no clearly defined authorized and official definition of “Large Ruins”, and there is no corresponding name of “Dayizhi” (Large Ruins) outside of China. The first official definition of “Large Ruins” in China comes from the “Management Method of Special funds for the Protection of Large Ruins” promulgated by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. Regulatory agencies and academic circles have reached preliminary consensus on the definition of world cultural heritage monitoring, namely, “monitoring is one of the major important methods for world heritage protection and management, and is the most basic and effective protection means for maintaining heritage safety (World Heritage Division of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, 2007). Based on the world cultural heritage monitoring activities carried out in China, this paper, by taking the monitoring system of the European-style Palaces of the Old Summer Palace as an example, one of around 150 Large Ruins in China, makes an attempt to answer the above questions What will be the content of monitoring and how do we build a Large Ruins monitoring system? Based on the world cultural heritage monitoring activities carried out in China, this paper, by taking the monitoring system of the European-style Palaces of the Old Summer Palace as an example, one of around 150 Large Ruins in China, makes an attempt to answer the above questions
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