Landscape: Concepts and Features in the Italian and Chinese Contexts

The chapter focuses on the qualitative analysis of landscape and its implications, considered as outcomes of a cultural process. Consequently, UNESCO cultural landscapesUNESCO cultural landscape are analysed in the framework of the Western world, to which ItalyItaly belongs, and in the Chinese one. Literature reviewLiterature review and remote, qualitative interviewsQualitative interviews with domestic and foreign scholars have been used to expand more on the different ideas contributing to the landscape-related concepts. The aim is to find parallels and bridges between the cultures of the mentioned countries and to define a possible common background for further discussions on landscape between the sites selected by this research (i.e. the ‘Vineyard LandscapeVineyard landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and MonferratoLanghe-Roero and Monferrato’, in ItalyItaly, and the ‘Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces’, in ChinaChina).