This book examines the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of China, particularly contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Macau. They have been actively preserving and showcasing both their tangible and intangible cultural heritages in the hopes of getting inscribed in UNESCO's List of ICH.This book examines various preservation cases of local practices and culture. It argues the need to establish a framework for the study of ICH, so that China's communities can effectively carry out ICH protection in order to gain reputation through UNESCO classification.

Kuah Khun Eng is Professor and Head of the School of Arts and Social Sciences, and Co-director of the Global Asia in the 21st Century (GA21) Research Platform, Monash University Malaysia.

Liu Zhaohui is Deputy Director of the Institute of Anthropology and Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University, China.

01. Chapter 1: Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Hong Kong and China: An Introductory Overview

02. Chapter 2: Heritagizing Lifestyle in Modern Hong Kong: Cultural Memories and Social Capital of the Tai O Fishing Community

03. Chapter 3: Cheung Chau Bun Festival: Durability of an Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Hong Kong

04. Chapter 4: Hong Kong's Urban Earth God Shrines: An Evolving Intangible Tradition in a Modern Urban Setting

05. Chapter 5: Song Ning Ritual: Practice Memory of the Buyi People

06. Chapter 6: Place Attachment and the Remaking Cultural Space with the Place Attachment in a Lijiang Resettlement Community

07. Chapter 7: From 'Folk Culture' to 'Great Cultural Heritage of China': The Aporia of the Quest for the Essence of Chinese Culture