Jianping Yang

Jianping (Elaine) Yang is affiliated with the Institute of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies at Zhejiang University. She participated in the ACHS 2016 conference ("What does heritage change?"), presenting in sessions such as Discovering a Heritage Site: Trauma, Place, Memory. Her research interests center on heritage dynamics, including industrial heritage reinterpretation, oral narratives, and the socio-political dimensions of memory preservation. She engaged in panel discussions addressing heritage’s role in community identity, deindustrialization impacts, and post-industrial urban transformation.

Key conference contributions include exploring how heritage sites reflect collective trauma and how urban areas like Montreal’s Lachine Canal undergo post-industrial reinvention. She also attended the conference’s opening ceremony and cultural events, highlighting interdisciplinary engagement with heritage’s past, present, and future.