Communication and Collaboration: The First Academic Conference Proceedings on Intangible Cultural Heritage Education and Research in Chinese Higher Education Institutions

Author: Qiao Xiaoguang, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: `Representatives of intangible cultural heritage listed in the "Representatives of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" must be representative traditional outstanding crafts, traditional folk art literature with outstanding artistic value, non-written forms of expression, and cultural expressions that highlight national traditional cultural identity but are endangered or currently endangered for various reasons: including various types of opera and related masks, props, and costume-making crafts; dance, such as folk and ethnic festival dances, ritual dances, and ceremonial dances; music, such as various types of folk and ethnic music and instrument-making crafts; oral literature, such as myths, legends, epics, games, and stories; and various exquisite and outstanding traditional crafts and handicrafts, such as dyeing and weaving, embroidery, paper-cutting, New Year paintings, carving, face flowers, and bamboo and rattan weaving, among other folk arts.