【Course Introduction】Cultural heritage is a melting pot of cultural diversity and the guarantee of sustainable development of mankind. With the "Belt and Road" initiative and the gradual deepening of the understanding of traditional cultural values, cultural heritage protection has become a hot topic in the international community, it is an important part of the construction of modern urban civilization, but also an important landing point to enhance the country's cultural soft power.This summer course will be organized by Xi'an Jiaotong University, Silk Road University Alliance, Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, with the assistance of shaanxi History Museum, Xi'an Jiaotong University Museum and other museums, "Belt and Road" Intellectual Property Sub-Alliance, Xi'an Jiaotong University School of International Education, School of Foreign Language will organize specific courses.

How to freshen the past up in Museum: A legal prospective on cultural creative issues in museum
Lecturer：Liu Lina

Abstract：This presentation takes cultural creative industry as the object of study and consider the effective protection and utilization of the movable cultural relics in museum. The lecture firstly lays out how to freshen the past up in museum? What are novel and interesting cultural creative activities/program in Chinese museum?  Does it cause any legal problems by   analyze legal cases. Secondly, it will discuss about the effective protection and the utilization of movable cultural relics in Chinese museum to make new creative activities by analyzing international law and Chinese laws.

Lecturer: Liu Lina，Associate Professor, PhD. Master's Supervisor. Research interests in cultural heritage law, international law, IP law. She have host over 8 fund projects of cultural heritage and intellectual property. Three research reports  were adopted by Chinese Administration of cultural relics; two English articles were reprinted by UNESCO. The monograph "legal protection of China's underwater cultural heritage" was awarded the "top 10 books of national cultural heritage in 2015". she participated in more than 20 international academic conferences on cultural industries in the United States, France, Singapore, Japan, Russia, etc. I Council Member of China Science and Technology Law Society，A Deputy Secretary-General of Science and Technology Law Association in Shaanxi Provincial Law Society, A Secretary-General of Intellectual Property Research Association in Xi ' An Law Society.

Shipwreck: A Perspective on Chinese Underwater Archaeology

Lecturer：Chen Bo

Abstract：In this lecture, we will mainly introduce the discovery process of the world's earliest tea unearthed in Hanyang mausoleum, as well as the significance and value in history, archaeology and the study of tea origin.

Lecturer:  Chen Bo, who graduated from the school of culture and Museum of Northwestern University in 2006, majored in archaeology. In the same year, he entered the Hanjing emperor's Yangling Museum. Now he is the deputy director of the Hanyang mausoleum display and storage research (Archaeology) department. He has participated in the archaeological excavation of the East Gate que site of the Hanyang mausoleum, the funerary pit site of the funerary tomb in the east area of Hanyang mausoleum and other sites. He has published more than 10 professional papers such as "Analysis on the causes of the phenomenon of" homogenization "in China's museums", "summary of the research on the mausoleum of the Duke of Qin", "management and protection of the archaeological site of Hanyang mausoleum", and edited 3 monographs such as "the story of the Silk Road: Hanjing emperor Yangling Museum".

The basic national conditions of Chinese cultural heritage

Lecturer：Liu Shuguang

Abstract：Under the national culture development strategy, the field of cultural relics and museums has ushered in reform and development. The great importance President Xi has attached to the work of cultural relics and museums and the enhancement of people’s awareness of protection of cultural relics will raise China’s cultural construction to a new historical level. The lecture introduces the outstanding features of the resources and protection of cultural relics in China with vivid cases and interprets with legal provisions, that the main position of state protection is fundamental to China’s cultural relics protection system. The lecture will bring to the students and faculty the content, characteristics, development and reflection of the protection, restoration, inscription and international cooperation of Chinese cultural relics.

Lecturer:  Research librarians. Graduated with a postgraduate degree in Chinese history from the Department of History of Peking University. He once served as Deputy Director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, President of the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage, and Director of the Center for Underwater Cultural Heritage, and now he is the chairman of the Chinese Museums Association. He is a recipient of the Order of the Star of Italy. His professional research direction is archaeology and cultural relics protection. He edited several works such as Cultural Relics Work Research and Actualized Atlas of Ancient Buildings on the Central Axis of Beijing, organized several underwater cultural heritage projects such as Nan’ao No.1 underwater archaeology project, and led a team to complete the first underwater cultural heritage survey of Nansha Islands in Chinese history. He organized and completed foreign aid projects such as the protection and restoration of Ta Keo Temple, a historic site in Angkor, Cambodia, as well as the application for the World Heritage List of the Grand Canal and the Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape.

 Chief expert of "China's marine heritage research (2019JZD059)", Key (Key grant) Project of Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China in Philosophy and Social Science.

  Chief expert of the National Social Science Fund's specially commissioned project "The Great Canal and the Great Wall Pictorial Biography" (20@ZH009).

Legal protection of traditional Chinese medicine

Lecturer：Ma Zhiguo

Abstract：Traditional Chinese medicine is a life science full of wisdom in ancient China. It has been developed to this day, and it has lasted forever. It is a model of the active inheritance of China's excellent traditional culture. With the opening of the ancient Silk Road, on the one hand, my country’s traditional Chinese medicine and its culture were spread throughout the countries along the Silk Road, and at the same time, a large number of Chinese medicinal materials were imported from countries in the Western Regions. Knowledge of pharmacology. It has a huge impact on the inheritance and development of Chinese medicine in later generations. Therefore, the Silk Road has an indissoluble bond with Chinese medicine. Xi Jinping, the top leader of China, attaches great importance to the culture of Chinese medicine. He believes that “Chinese medicine is the treasure of ancient Chinese science and the key to open the treasure house of Chinese civilization.” He emphasizes: “The book of poetry compiled by China more than 2500 years ago records with more than 130 kinds of plants. Chinese medicine has made important contributions to human health. The Silk Road developed by planting mulberries and raising silkworms has become an important link to promote trade and cultural exchanges between the East and the West." New Silk Road needs Chinese medicine culture to act as a "health ambassador" to promote the construction of a community of human health and health.

Lecturer: Ma Zhiguo, second-grade professor at the school of law, Xi’an JiaoTong University, doctoral tutor. Director of Intellectual Property Research Center attached to the Key Research Base of Shaanxi Provincial Philosophy Social Science, also the dean of Intellectual Property Research Institute of Xi’an Jiaotong University. A lawyer, arbitrator and judicial appraiser.

Chang'an-the Start of the Silk Road
Lecturer：Yang Xiaojun

Abstract：Chang’an was not only the capital of the Han Dynasty, but also the starting point of the Silk Road. The Chinese civilization communicated with other civilization in the world through the Silk Road. In the Tang Dynasty, the capital Chang’an was a famous international metropolis and  center of the Silk Road. Foreign civilization gathered here and merged with the Chinese civilization, as a result, a transcendental civilization formed and spread all over the world through the Silk Road.

Lecturer:  Yang Xiaojun, female, born in 1971, is a member of the Communist Party of China. In 2007, she graduated from the Kobe University major in Social Culture and got Ph.D. At present, she is a researcher and director of the research department of the Shaanxi History Museum. In 2018, she was selected as one of the excellent talents of Shaanxi Province. Her research field is Han and Tang archaeology and art history. She has completed the Chinese National Social Science Fund Project Research on the worship system of Buddhist relics in Sui and Tang Dynasty, published monograph the Buddhist Art of the Wuzhou Era—the Relief of the Seven-Jewel-Tower of the Guangzhai Temple of Chang’an, and more than 30 papers. She curated original exhibitions such as Start of the Silk Road, Splendid Civilization - Cultural Heritage of of Shaanxi Province, the Silk Road Legacy Radiating from Chang’an, The way of Truth and Art: the Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Collection.

Inheritance and protection of Chinas intangible cultural heritage

Lecturer：Jiang Bo

Abstract：President XI Jinping delivered the report at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and pointed out that “Development is the underpinning and the key for solving all our country’s problems; our development must be sound development. We must pursue with firmness of purpose the vision of innovative, coordinated, green, and open development that is for everyone”. Practice has proved that traditional knowledge (TK) is a critical resource of innovation and innovative actions need to be ruled by law for the sake of fairness and justice and the aim of sustainable development. The existing systems, IPRs, ICH and data base etc., cut both ways. Establishing specialized legal system to protect TK maybe is a helpful exploration.

Lecturer:  Zhou Fang, professor at the school of law, Xi’an JiaoTong University. PhD in Law; Professor; Intellectual Property Judicial Appraiser; Arbitrator.Deputy Director of the Intellectual Property Research Center, XJTU.She used to be a visiting professor at the School of Law, University of Southampton, and Deputy Procurator General at the People’s Procuratorate of Lianhu District, Xi’an. She is a member of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS), member of the China Intellectual Property Law Research Society, Deputy Secretary-General of Chinese Society of Science and Technology Law, an expert of overseas intellectual property rights protection for enterprises of the Ministry of Commerce, and advisor on legislation for the Xi’an municipal.

The basic national conditions of China's heritage museums

Lecturer：Liu Shuguang

Abstract：Under the national culture development strategy, the field of cultural relics and museums has ushered in reform and development. The great importance President Xi has attached to the work of cultural relics and museums and the enhancement of people’s awareness of protection of cultural relics will raise China’s cultural construction to a new historical level. The lecture introduces the outstanding features of the resources and protection of cultural relics in China with vivid cases and interprets with legal provisions, that the main position of state protection is fundamental to China’s cultural relics protection system. The lecture will bring to the students and faculty the content, characteristics, development and reflection of the protection, restoration, inscription and international cooperation of Chinese cultural relics.

Lecturer: Liu Shuguang, research librarians. Graduated with a postgraduate degree in Chinese history from the Department of History of Peking University. He once served as Deputy Director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, President of the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage, and Director of the Center for Underwater Cultural Heritage, and now he is the chairman of the Chinese Museums Association. He is a recipient of the Order of the Star of Italy. His professional research direction is archaeology and cultural relics protection. He edited several works such as Cultural Relics Work Research and Actualized Atlas of Ancient Buildings on the Central Axis of Beijing, organized several underwater cultural heritage projects such as Nan’ao No.1 underwater archaeology project, and led a team to complete the first underwater cultural heritage survey of Nansha Islands in Chinese history. He organized and completed foreign aid projects such as the protection and restoration of Ta Keo Temple, a historic site in Angkor, Cambodia, as well as the application for the World Heritage List of the Grand Canal and the Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape.

 Chief expert of "China's marine heritage research (2019JZD059)", Key (Key grant) Project of Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China in Philosophy and Social Science.

  Chief expert of the National Social Science Fund's specially commissioned project "The Great Canal and the Great Wall Pictorial Biography" (20@ZH009).

The worlds earliest tea leaves unearthed in Hanyang Mausoleum
Lecturer：Jiang Bo

Abstract：Nanhai I （南海I号）Shipwreck was firstly found in 1987 when the Chinese and Britain Scholars worked together to search for a lost East Indian Company vessel. It’s reported that Nanhai I is a merchant ship dated back to the southern Song dynasty, or precisely, the end of 12th century. According to the analyzing of cargoes, it is confirmed to depart from Quanzhou Port, and the possible destination may be a port in Southeast Asia, or even further to the Indian Ocean. The location of the shipwreck was the right place recorded as “放洋之地”（namely, departing place for oversea sailing） for merchant ships in ancient China.

Lecturer:  Jiang Bo， Professor， Shandong University，Vice-President of ICOMOS，Vice-Chairman, ICOMOS-China. His main publications include Archaeological Discovery and Research of Ancient Chinese Capital, A Study on Ritual Architectures of the Han-tang Period Capitals etc.