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Article Open Access http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2024.07.017

Institutionalized Management of China’s Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Case Study from Yunnan

Yang Wang

Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau 999078, China.

*Corresponding author: Yang Wang

Published: August 13,2024

Abstract

After more than ten years of development, China's intangible cultural heritage work has established a hierarchical intangible cultural heritage list through a certification system covering four levels: national, provincial, municipal, and county. This system integrates intangible cultural heritage projects into the standardized certification and grading system. The management system has had a negative impact on China's intangible cultural heritage. This article focuses on the national-level intangible cultural heritage project of Huayao Dai Costume in Yunnan Province, China. It specifically analyzes the project’s step-by-step application process and the institutionalized management practices of the representative inheritors associated with it. The article argues that China uses administrative power to promote the construction of intangible cultural heritage, reducing culture and people to objects to be managed through institutionalized management of intangible cultural heritage. This approach ignores the dynamic characteristics of intangible cultural heritage, pushing it into unhealthy competition and a rigid social evaluation system.

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How to cite this paper

Institutionalized Management of China's Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Case Study from Yunnan

How to cite this paper: Yang Wang. (2024) Institutionalized Management of China's Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Case Study from Yunnan. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science8(7), 1643-1648.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2024.07.017