Celebrating Our Living Heritage: A Dedicated Webpage Developed by China Folklore Society
June 10, 2023, is designated as Cultural and Natural Heritage Day in China. This year’s theme, set by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT), is “Strengthening the Systematic Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage and Promoting Sustainable Development” to enhance intangible cultural heritage (ICH) nationwide. The year 2003 also marks the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (the 2003 Convention), and the global celebration activities leads by UNESCO have been organized under the theme of “We Are #LivingHeritage” to reflect on the role of the 2003 Convention in raising awareness of the diversity and richness of ICH and promoting international cooperation.
To raise the level of China’s systematic safeguarding of the ICH in the new era, to promote theoretical and methodological research on ICH safeguarding, to respond to the proposal for anniversary activities adopted by the General Assembly of the States Parties to the ICH Convention at its Ninth Session (Document LHE/22/9.GA/13), and to facilitate academic exchanges and information sharing, the China Folklore Society (CFS), an NGO accredited by UNESCO’s the Intergovernmental Committee for Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2012, organized the “Webinar on Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the 2003 Convention and Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in China” on 20 June 2023.
In the past three months, the CFS conducted 5 online workshops to coordinate more than 20 promising authors who participated in the June webinar to prepare 5 groups of thematic articles, supported by 5 core journals in humanities in China, namely, the Editorial Board of Folklore Studies (Jinan, Shandong), the Editorial Board of Ethnic Arts (Nanning, Guangxi), the Editorial Board of Northwestern Journal of Ethnology (Lanzhou, Gansu), the Editorial Board of Journal of Yunnan Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition, Kunming, Yunnan), and the Editorial Board of Yunnan Social Sciences (Kunming, Yunnan), as a result of the process, the CFS has developed a dedicated webpage on “Celebrating Our Living Heritage” at https://www.chinafolklore.org/ich20th/ to join the 20th anniversary of the 2003 Convention which will be released online on October 17, 2023.
The dedicated webpage mainly consists of the following content sections: (1) the Academic Column in Celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the 2003 Convention by incorporating more than 20 articles that will be published on the abovementioned five core journals, including the titles and abstracts of written articles and monographs, and the basic information of the authors in English and Chinese; (2) the Revisit to the CFS’s baseline actions in its participation in the implementation of the 2003 Convention with some key events; (3) the ICH Research Column on the China Folklore Network (CFN) which covers hundreds of full-text articles; (4) the “Frontier of the 2003 Convention Column” on the CFN, with a total of 110 pieces of relevant events and news; and (5) Useful links to the global events in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the 2003 Convention on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Website, UNESCO - Living Heritage Entity (CLT/LHE).
You are more than welcome to visit the CFS’s Thematic Column in Celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the 2003 Convention through following webpage:
