Yining Fu

Yining Fu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies at the University of Exeter. She is 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.

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 study seeks to move beyond a discourse framed primarily by European experience and theory, rethinking the local contexts and meanings of heritage conservation in China.