Supervisors: John Schofield and Louise Cooke
My research is about a newly-nominated heritage route in China, called ‘Miles Tea Road’. Similar to other heritage routes/cultural itineraries (for example: the Silk Road), it has stressed the diversity of both tangible and intangible heritage resources alongside and still been in the process of inscription to World Heritage Site since 2013. This road used to be bustling during 17-20th century for transporting tea products from China to Europe. Based on heritage sites in different areas on the unique route, I will explore the dynamic relationship between modern expression of these heritage sites and the collective memories about tea road of local communities in the research and try to find how can these two mutually influenced each other through fieldwork.