Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China
Incense Is Kept Burning
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Product details:
- Publisher Indiana University Press
- Date of Publication 11 February 2020
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9780253046352
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages276 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 b&w illus., 4 maps, 1 table Illustrations, black & white 0
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In this important ethnography Ziying You explores the role of the ""folk literati"" in negotiating, defining, and maintaining local cultural heritage. Expanding on the idea of the elite literati—a widely studied pre-modern Chinese social group, influential in cultural production—the folk literati are defined as those who are skilled in classical Chinese, knowledgeable about local traditions, and capable of representing them in writing. The folk literati work to maintain cultural continuity, a concept that is expressed locally through the vernacular phrase: ""incense is kept burning.""
You's research focuses on a few small villages in Hongtong County, Shanxi Province in contemporary China. Through a careful synthesis of oral interviews, participant observation, and textual analysis, You presents the important role the folk literati play in reproducing local traditions and continuing stigmatized beliefs in a community context. She demonstrates how eight folk literati have reconstructed, shifted, and negotiated local worship traditions around the ancient sage-Kings Yao and Shun as well as Ehuang and Nüying, Yao's two daughters and Shun's two wives. You highlights how these individuals' conflictive relationships have shaped and reflected different local beliefs, myths, legends, and history in the course of tradition preservation. She concludes her study by placing these local traditions in the broader context of Chinese cultural policy and UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage program, documenting how national and international discourses impact actual traditions, and the conversations about them, on the ground.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
A Note on Romanization, Chinese Characters, and English Translation
Introduction
1. Background: Situating Local Beliefs about Ehuang and Nüying in Hongtong, Shanxi
2. Incense Is Kept Burning: The Role of Folk Literati in Continuing and Representing Local Traditions
3. Contested Myth, History, and Beliefs: Worshipping Yao and Shun at Village Temples in Hongtong
4. Tradition Ecology: Debating and Remaking Ehuang and Nüying's Conflict Legends by Folk Literati
5. Reproducing Tradition: Folk Literati, Sociocultural Differentiation, and Their Interaction with Other Social Actors
6. Making Intangible Cultural Heritage: Folklore, Tradition, and Power
Conclusion
Appendix: In Commemoration of the Reconstruction of the Shun Temple
Bibliography
Index
