Coordinator: Professors Wu Zongjie
The Research Cluster for Intangible
Heritage in the Cross-Cultural perspective aims to bring together researchers
at Zhejiang University who are working in areas broadly related to the
study of culture and cultural activity. We seek to integrate the study of
cultural heritage - the artefacts, texts, documents and other records of past
and continuing cultural practice - with the study of the processes and media by
which cultural practices and industry are fostered. Although the study of
cultural heritage have conventionally been regarded as the purview of different
disciplines in the humanities, we regard their relationship as symbiotic, and
aim to break down any traditional division between areas of study. Cultural
heritage is, in our view, is continually subject to revision, renegotiation and
reinterpretation, as part of a process of cross-cultural exchange. Through the
activities of its themed research groups, collaborative and cross-disciplinary
research projects, seminars and symposia, the team explores and defines the
nature of the essential interaction between cultural heritage and
cross-cultural exchange, and fosters new kinds of interdisciplinary research
across a wide range of fields in the humanities and social science.