TY - MGZN
KW - Cultural Ecosystem Conservation
KW - experiment
KW - Intangible cultural heritage
KW - puppet theatre
KW - southern Fujian culture
AU - G. Shu
AB - In 2007, the Chinese Ministry of Culture launched a new and experimental project for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH): establishing the National Cultural Ecosystem Conservation Area (NCECA). Since the first instance of the Southern Fujian NCECA, the project has now come to cover 21 areas. This chapter uses the puppetry tradition of the southern Fujian area as an example to examine the link between the concept of NCECA and ICH items, which involves the connections and interplay of three core elements: people, item knowledge systems, and cultural-natural-historical backgrounds. As an experimental project of the Chinese government, the establishment of NCECA is a core result of China’s recent thinking on the safeguarding of ICH overall. The project involves a reading of ICH items in cultural space and represents a practice that approaches collective cultural identities, which, though intangible, are important and closely related to local people’s daily life.
C2 - Music, Communities, Sustainability: Developing Policies and Practices
DO - 10.1093/oso/9780197609101.003.0011
N2 - In 2007, the Chinese Ministry of Culture launched a new and experimental project for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH): establishing the National Cultural Ecosystem Conservation Area (NCECA). Since the first instance of the Southern Fujian NCECA, the project has now come to cover 21 areas. This chapter uses the puppetry tradition of the southern Fujian area as an example to examine the link between the concept of NCECA and ICH items, which involves the connections and interplay of three core elements: people, item knowledge systems, and cultural-natural-historical backgrounds. As an experimental project of the Chinese government, the establishment of NCECA is a core result of China’s recent thinking on the safeguarding of ICH overall. The project involves a reading of ICH items in cultural space and represents a practice that approaches collective cultural identities, which, though intangible, are important and closely related to local people’s daily life.
SP - 199
EP - 210
TI - Reading ICH in Cultural Space: China’s National Cultural Ecosystem (Experimental) Conservation Areas
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85144429009&doi=10.1093%2foso%2f9780197609101.003.0011&partnerID=40&md5=a6737ef8111d771eb0287422362e5a0d
ER -