Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary China (eBook, ePUB)

The participation of local communities
Redaktion: Kuah, Khun Eng; Liu, Zhaohui

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of China, particularly contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Macau. They have been actively preserving and showcasing both their tangible and intangible cultural heritages in the hopes of getting inscribed in UNESCO's List of ICH.This book examines various preservation cases of local practices and culture. It argues the need to establish a framework for the study of ICH, so that China's communities can effectively carry out ICH protection in order to gain reputation through UNESCO classification.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317242635
• Artikelnr.: 47137450

Autorenporträt

Kuah Khun Eng is Professor and Head of the School of Arts and Social Sciences, and Co-director of the Global Asia in the 21st Century (GA21) Research Platform, Monash University Malaysia. Liu Zhaohui is Deputy Director of the Institute of Anthropology and Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University, China.

Inhaltsangabe

01. Chapter 1: Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Hong Kong and
China: An Introductory Overview
02. Chapter 2: Heritagizing Lifestyle in Modern Hong Kong: Cultural
Memories and Social Capital of the Tai O Fishing Community
03. Chapter 3: Cheung Chau Bun Festival: Durability of an Intangible
Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Hong Kong
04. Chapter 4: Hong Kong's Urban Earth God Shrines: An Evolving Intangible
Tradition in a Modern Urban Setting
05. Chapter 5: Song Ning Ritual: Practice Memory of the Buyi People
06. Chapter 6: Place Attachment and the Remaking Cultural Space with the
Place Attachment in a Lijiang Resettlement Community
07. Chapter 7: From 'Folk Culture' to 'Great Cultural Heritage of China':
The Aporia of the Quest for the Essence of Chinese Culture