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Understanding and Theorizing the Change

The Social Benefits of Heritage and Chinese Ethnic Minorities

Pan Shouyong Pan Shouyong is a Professor of Anthropology and Museology at Minzu University of China (i.e., the Central University for National Minorities, Beijing) and holds a doctorate in National Minority Studies (Anthropology). He is a special research fellow of the Chinese Museum of National Minorities and a pre‐eminent member of the National Planning Committee of Chinese Eco‐Museums. He was previously in charge of the conservation strategy for the cultural protection of national minority customs of the peoples of the Three Gorges Reservoir District, as well as the rescue mission for China’s national minority cultural artefacts and the large‐scale conservation of cultural heritage. Since 2008 he has been involved in the new museum movement in rural China. His most recent published works include: The Century’s National Treasures II(editor‐in‐chief, 2005),Developmental Aspects of Research in Modern Western Museums(editor‐in‐chief, 2005),The Eco‐Museum as Mirror(2007),A Biography of Lin Yueh‐hwa: Anthropologist(2009) and Social Cultural Change and Ethnic Relationship in North China (2010).
Pages 43-54 | Published online: 07 Dec 2018
 
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Abstract

China is becoming increasingly aware of new trends of museum movement of ethnic minorities, yet a theoretically informed and methodologically systematic study assessing the meaning is still lacking. This article investigates two village museums, and tells of what happened in the villages when the museums had been built. These two museums are: Gong‐mi‐a Village Museum in Leishan County and Xiao‐huang Village Dong Chorus Museum in Congjiang County, both belong to Kaili Miao and Dong Ethnic Groups Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou province.

Notes

1. Louisa Schein (CitationSchein 2002) focused on the culture of the Miao women of Xijiang town, which belong to another branch see detail at Minority Rules: the Miao and the feminine in Chinese cultural politics, Duke University Press, 2002.

2. Gong‐mi‐a lent 10,000 yuan to Shui‐zu village last year, with this help the Shui zu ethnic group built a small museum which holds sixteen Shui‐shu manuscripts. Shui‐shu is very different from Chinese orthography.

3. Please see details on the UNESCO website: www. unesco.org.

4. Our colleagues found this group during the 1950 and ’60s, when they carried out the great survey into ethnic societies and minzu identification.

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