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Chinese Village: Can Cultural Heritage be Copy-Paste?

Not for the first time, Chinese developer is doing a copy-paste job, inspired by the breathtaking European villages. But can the cultural heritage by copy-paste?

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Hallstatt in Austria

Chinese copy of Austrian village stirs emotions

BY GEORGE JAHN

It's a scenic jewel, a hamlet of hill-hugging chalets, elegant church spires and ancient inns all reflected in the deep still waters of an Alpine lake. Hallstatt's beauty has earned it a listing as a UNESCO World Heritage site but some villagers are less happy about a more recent distinction - plans to copy their hamlet in China.

After taking photos and collecting other data on the village while mingling with the tourists, a Chinese firm has started to rebuild much of Hallstatt in faraway Guandong province - a project that residents here see with mixed emotions.

Publicly, Hallstatters say they are proud that their village has caught they eye of Minmetals Land Ltd. the real estate development arm of China Minmetals Corp., China's largest metals trader. With most of them dependent on the hundreds of thousands of tourists who overrun Hallstatt's 900 inhabitants each year, they see the project as good for business.

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"We're happy they find it beautiful enough to copy," says souvenir store owner Ingrid Janu. Hallstatt Mayor Alexander Scheutz describes the plan as "a compliment to our village," while hotel owner Monika Wenger thinks at least some Chinese who have seen the copy cat version of Hallstatt will want to visit the original.

But in a deeply traditional part of Austria shielded for centuries from much of the rest of the world by towering mountains and steep valleys, the apparent secrecy surrounding the project has also revived suspicions of outsiders, even though Hallstatt survives only because of the millionds of tourist dollars spent here every year.

"I saw myself confronted with a fait accompli," says Scheutz of his first reaction when he saw the drawings, now collected in a thick folder on his desk containing documents that he says copy much of the town down to the individual boards of scenic wooden balconies. While he disputes local media accounts citing him as furiously vowing to prevent the Chinese project, he acknowledges being "definitely a bit stunned."

Wenger is more outspoken. she says most of the villagers she has talked to are "outraged - not about the fact but the approach."

"I don't like the idea of knowing that a team was present here for years measuring, and photographing and studying us," she said Thursday, sitting at her hotel's terrace against the stunning backdrop of Lake Hallstatt, its surface mirroring nearby peaks of granite. "I would have expected them to approach us directly - the whole thing reminds of a bit of Big Brother is watching.

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"This house is my personal work of art," she said of her 400-year old hotel. "And then someone comes here and copies it - for me, it's as if a painter copies someone else's artwork."

The Chinese developers are advertising the project as low-density high end residential development "surrounded by mountains with mountain and lake views," to be built "in a European architectural style, with a commercial street built with the characteristics of an Austrian-style town."

But at the Chinese site, in the city of Huizhou about 60 kilometers (100 miles) north of the border with Hong Kong, there is little to indicate that the copycat version will ever approximate the beauty of the original.

Barbara Neubauer, the head of Austria's monument conservation office which has placed much of the village under its authority, said there is nothing her office could do against copy-catters even if it wanted to. She said any legal action would be up to individual owners who felt their rights were violated by the Chinese.There will be no issues with "so-called intellectual property," she said.

"Hallstatt has a centuries old culture," says Scheutz, the Hallstatt mayor. "This is something you cannot copy."

Associated press writer Kelvin Chan and video journalist Annie Ho contributed from Hong-Kong and Huizhou, China.

Some say it is inevitable and understandable that when one certain culture gets influential, it goes global, glo-calized and therefore thrived– the cultural heritage is owned by the whole human beings, rather than just one country/nation’s property – so called cultural globalization.

Others say it is precisely a matter of copyright.

Still others say it is nothing about the copy itself, but the approach to copy- how you interact with the “original authors”. And, your say ??

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