"Echoes of Jade and Gold: Exploring Dongba - Proceedings of the International Dongba Cultural and Art Academic Symposium"

Author: Bai Gengsheng
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: This book is a collection of selected papers from the 1999 International Dongba Cultural and Art Academic Symposium. It includes nearly 30 papers that discuss the history and current state of Dongba culture and art from various perspectives, such as linguistics and writing, literature and art, religious philosophy, history and archaeology, economics and technology, as well as ethnology, sociology, and tourism economics. The authors are scholars and experts from China and abroad who have long been engaged in or concerned with Dongba culture and art. Faced with the rapid transformation of the Naxi society and the resulting changes in Dongba culture and art, they have shown great concern and offered insightful suggestions for the protection, inheritance, innovation, and development of this cultural heritage.