In March 2020, the English monograph written by Dr. Zhang Rouran (teacher of the College of Tourism and Service Management of Nankai University) titled “Chinese Heritage Sites and Their Audiences: The Power of the Past” was officially published by Routledge, a world famous humanities and social Sciences publishing house.

This English monograph is the result of Mr. Zhang’s research on “A Tour of Culture and Nature”, a project jointly launched by the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.: 51908295). This monograph aims to explore the discourse power relationship among all stakeholders of heritage in the process of heritage protection, declaration and management, discuss the relationship between the experiences, feelings, emotions and memories of Chinese tourists and residents of heritage communities and the social and cultural values of world heritages from the perspective of anthropology, and compare and analyze the differences between Chinese and Western world heritages and cultural landscapes in social and cultural values.

Routledge is one of the world’s most prestigious academic publishing houses, and is owned by Taylor & Francis Group. It has published the academic achievements of many internationally renowned world heritage and culture & tourism scholars. The publication of this monograph has the voice of Chinese scholars embodied in the international framework of world heritages. And this is conducive to expanding the participation of China into international heritage affairs, improving the international image of China, and promoting the protection, management and development of heritage sites.