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Urban Heritage Conservation of China's Historic Water Towns And heritage Article Urban Heritage Conservation of China’s Historic Water Towns and the Role of Professor Ruan Yisan: Nanxun, Tongli, and Wuzhen Heleni Porfyriou Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Cultural Heritage, CNR - National Research Council of Italy, 00186 Rome, Italy; [email protected] Received: 23 June 2019; Accepted: 10 August 2019; Published: 13 August 2019 Abstract: Between the 13th and the 19th century, hundreds of water towns flourished in China along the Grand Canal and to the south of the Yangtze river, the latter being the focus of this paper. Despite their long history, water towns still lack a comprehensive account of their urban history and development, yet they have become world famous as tourist destinations. Initially branded under titles such as the “Venice of the East” or the “Venice of China”, they are visited nowadays, for their own sake and not as surrogates of Venice, by millions of Chinese tourists. Focusing on the urban form and heritage of the three historic water towns of Nanxun, Tongli and Wuzhen, and on their conservation planning as promoted by Professor Ruan Yisan since the mid-1980s, the aim of this paper is twofold. On one hand, the aim is to identify and examine, through personal observation and secondary sources, the urban patterns and morphology of these places; on the other hand, to explore through his publications the impact of Professor Ruan Yisan—a (if not the) key figure—in their conservation and tourist development. The paper’s broader aim is to contribute to a more systematic analytical approach towards the urban form of Chinese historic water towns as a basis for further research and heritage conservation planning. Keywords: Chinese historic water towns; urban form and conservation; heritage tourism; Ruan Yisan; Nanxun; Tongli; Wuzhen 1. Introduction: Water Towns—A Story Still to be Written Water towns have a long history that is closely linked to the natural configuration of the land, particularly in East China, which “is so dense with waterways and small lakes that the map looks more like a cross-section through a sponge” (Figure1), as Philip Ball put it in his fascinating book The Water Kingdom. A Secret History of China [1] (p. 127). Their development was strongly dependent on the—until recently—predominantly agricultural economy of China (Figure2), while their history is closely related to the big commercial route of the Grand Canal and its ingenious hydraulic works, dating back to the Sui (581–618 C.E.) and Tang (618–907 C.E.) dynasties (Figure3). “On a good day a riverboat could hope to cover fifteen to twenty-five kilometres. The imperial grain vessels seldom kept the same crew from start to end of a journey—there would be changes along the way [Grand Canal], and sometimes the grain might be stored in granaries en route if repairs or bad weather impeded progress. The lives of the river merchants and their captains were a constant procession of misty peaks and water towns, as elegantly conveyed by the Song painter Zhang Zeduan [2] in his famous scroll painting Along the River During the Qingming Festival”. [1] (p. 121) (Figure4) Hundreds of water towns were built along watercourses. A significant number of them, located both south of the Yangtze river and along the Grand Canal, have been greatly influenced and developed Heritage 2019, 2, 2417–2443; doi:10.3390/heritage2030149 www.mdpi.com/journal/heritage Heritage 2019, 2 2418 Heritage 2019, 2 FOR PEER REVIEW 2 indeveloped relation toin the relation impact to of thisthe imposingimpact of communication this imposing and communication commercial route and (measuringcommercial around route 1800km(measuring in the around 13th century), 1800km in which the 13th connected century), Hangzhou, which connected in the southern Hangzhou, part of in the the empire, southern to Beijing,part of inthe northern empire, to China Beijing, (Figure in northern3). “Constructed China (Figure in sections3). “Constructed from the in 5th sections century from BC the onwards, 5th century it was BC conceivedonwards, it as was a unified conceived means as of a communicationunified means of for co themmunication Empire for thefor the first Empire time in for the the 7th first century time AD in (Suithe 7th dynasty)” century [AD3]. 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HydrographicHydrographic basin of Shanghai Region Region,, 1930 (re-elaborated by the author). Figure 2. RuralRural landscape near Tongli, 2015 (photo by the author). The Grand Canal was added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2014, and this gave a new impetus to the opening and promotion of at le leastast 40 new heritage sites sites along along its its course course [5]. [5]. However, despite this long and rich history, waterwater towns still lack a comprehensive account of their urban history,2 or at least a history of the urban morphology and evolution of the more homogeneous 1 The Yangtze region was always of great economic importance to successive dynasties for its agricultural potential. 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