Guan Min (MDes CC ’17) awarded Summer Study Grant from the Lee and Juliet Folger Fund

Guan Min (MDes CC ’17) has been awarded a grant for summer study from The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund and the Harvard Asia Center. Min’s research, Field Investigation of China’s Historical and Cultural Villages in Zhejiang Province, proposes to study China’s Historical and Cultural Villages in Zhejiang Province, which is the richest province in China and also possesses the second largest number of Historical and Cultural Villages (28 out of 267). The field investigation picks some of these villages as case studies and will expose the demographic, economic and identity changes produced by the designations of the Historical and Cultural Villages, forming the foundation of a critical analysis on China’s preservation policy and rural development mode, and eventually reflecting on a more refined rural development strategy. The product will be a critique paper containing photographs taken in the villages and data collected by the investigation, and some cartographic analyses