Professor Su from Mandalay Technological University and a Charles Wallace Burma Trust Visiting Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies, examines the nature of the architecture and cultural heritage of central Yangon, arguing that, although both authenticity and integrity have to some extent been compromised, it still reflects the UNESCO World Heritage Convention Operational Guidelines – ‘The respect due to all cultures requires that cultural heritage must be considered and judged primarily within the cultural contexts to which it belongs’.