Yining Fu

Yining Fu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies at the University of Exeter. Her research interests include heritage conservation, heritage politics, and modernity, with particular attention to the intellectual and institutional transformations of Chinese heritage in global and colonial contexts. Her doctoral research, Architectural Heritage Conservation in China: Historical Development from 1895 to 1937, situates China’s understandings and practices of heritage within their multi-layered social, political, and cultural contexts, examining how tradition and modernity were negotiated. The project seeks to move beyond a discourse framed primarily by European experience and theory, rethinking the local contexts and meanings of heritage conservation in China.

Yining is currently fully funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) and is also a recipient of the LimeTree Capital PhD China Scholarship Fund. She holds a BA in Archaeology from Nanjing University and an MPhil in Heritage Studies from the University of Cambridge. She currently serves as the Coordinator of the Global China Research Centre (GCRC) at the University of Exeter.