In this study, I analyse how the Chinese Government imposes the concept of authenticity on local heritage practices in the process of heritage nomination, conservation and management. Rather than discussing authenticity as an objective criterion, I approach authentication as a social process in the heritage discourse that impacts on local cultural practice. Through illustrating two cases in Chi...

Deformation is the direct cause of heritage object collapse. It is significant to monitor and signal the early warnings of the deformation of heritage objects. However, traditional heritage object monitoring methods only roughly monitor a simple-shaped heritage object as a whole, but cannot monitor complicated heritage objects, which may have a large number of surfaces inside and outside. Wirel...

Computer games with fully intensive graphics are very common in desktop computers or game console, but the development of mobile games with intensive graphics are fairly new. With the advancement in mobile phone technology, it is possible to create a mobile game incorporates integrate the virtual reality techniques. In this paper, the authors present a virtual heritage application called M-Heri...

This thesis investigates the use of sentence final particles (SFPs) in heritage Cantonese. Heritage speakers are early or sequential bilinguals who, in adulthood, are more proficient in the dominant language of their society than in their first, “heritage” language. Heritage speakers exhibit systematic divergence from the baseline (the language they were exposed to), a number of which can be at...

Digital technologies are becoming extremely important for web-based cultural heritage applications. This thesis presents novel digital technology solutions to ̳access and interact‘ with digital heritage objects and collections. These innovative solutions utilize service orientation (web services), workflows, and social networking and Web 2.0 mashup technologies to innovate the creation, interpr...

Purpose By reconsidering the concept of historic environment, aim this study is to better understand how heritage expressed by examining networks within which cultural performances environment take place. The goal move beyond a purely material expression and seek expansion dimension environment. Design/methodology/approach Conceptually, considered valuable resource for exploration. databases re...