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Decoding decades of efforts to preserve Qiang New Year festival

In celebration of the Qiang New Year festival's inscription on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list on Dec. 5, young people from the ancient city of Qiang in Maoxian County, dressed in ...
中国日报网

Extinction-threatened Qiang culture calls for protection

Although Wei Jun comes from Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County, the worst hit county of the 2008 earthquake in China's southwestern Sichuan Province, neither does she know the origin of her ethnic ...
中国日报网

Ancient Qiang culture emerges from fog of quake zone

BEICHUAN, Sichuan Province -- "Once the culture of a nationality is destroyed, the nationality ceases to exist." The sentence written in Jia Dechun's proposals on the protection of southwest China's ...
Los Angeles Times

Quake threatens a culture’s future

BEICHUAN, CHINA — Deng Rufu sits on a rock watching the exodus of his people from their ravaged homeland. A young Qiang man with a sweating brow carries his 82-year-old grandmother on a wooden ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Mysterious Qiang culture at risk after China quake

BEICHUAN, China - Deng Rufu sits on a rock watching the exodus of his people from their ravaged homeland. A young Qiang man with a sweating brow carries his 82-year-old grandmother on a wooden ...
insider.si.edu

Reviving a Culture with Qiang Folksongs

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Zewang Renqing and Geluo Zhaxi performing in the Moonrise Pavilion at the 2014 Folklife Festival. Photo by Brian Barger, Ralph Rinzler Folklife ...
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Across China: Decoding decades of efforts to preserve Qiang New Year festival

CHENGDU, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- In celebration of the Qiang New Year festival's inscription on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list on Dec. 5, young people from the ancient city of Qiang in ...