Local versus national interests in the promotion and management of a heritage site: A case study from Zhejiang Province, China

Abstract

This chapter presents three related, yet exclusive, kinds of heritage as the result of different ways of promoting and managing the heritage site of Hu in southeast China: the tangible and intangible heritage of the folk religion of Hu that has been created and guarded by the local residents for over 900 years; the fabricated heritage of Hu through a large-scale construction led by the local government to promote tourism since the 1980s; and the government's plan to deconstruct the built environment and relocate all the residents to create a World Natural Heritage Site in recent years.