Traditional Rural Heritage Conservation in China: Policies and Theories

This chapter discusses the research development process for protecting rural heritage in China from the beginning of the last century. The literature review shows that conserving traditional villages is a growing concern in China. Furthermore, in previous studies, most discussions have focused on how to preserve the macro-structure of villages, as well as the documentation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, paying attention to the relationship between cultural routes and village conservation, grading and classifying different types of traditional villages based on the criteria for discussing value evaluation and discussing the content of conservation planning for traditional villages. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, a few scholars have focused on Chinese villages’ morphology.