ABSTRACT
Local factors have been dominant in the early evolution of cultural heritage management in Hong Kong, Macau and Guangzhou. These three cities have developed very different administrative systems as a result of their historical development: British-colonial-derived in Hong Kong; Portuguesecolonial-derived in Macau; and socialist-regime-in-transition-towardsmarket in Guangzhou. The stages of inventory and initial legislation as per the notional CHM model in Chapter 1 have been affected directly by these trajectories. It is worth revisiting briefly the differences in how the laws in these three cities have been developed in order to explore their respective impacts on CHM practices.
