<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">There is an element of justice in all this. Back in 2005, when 'Gangneung Danoje' (known to most of us through the McCune Reischauer equivalent 'Kangnűng tanoje') was announced as a UNESCO 'Masterpiece in the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity', a number of Chinese scholars argued that Dano/Tano was a Chinese festival, and that the 'Masterpiece' should be recognised as Chinese, not Korean. This had the effect of galvanising efforts in China to legislate and to appoint cultural traditions from around China – including those of the recognised minorities – as cultural heritage that should be registered, preserved and promoted. The scholar Tian Qing, currently at the Music Research Institute in Beijing and closely associated with Beijing politicians, has been particularly active in developing the mechanisms as well as the criteria for registering cultural properties. Needless to say, the music of Chinese Koreans constitutes part of the Chinese cultural heritage. (For those who are interested, my colleague Rowan Pease has written a wonderful PhD dissertation about the music of the Chinese Koreans – it sits in the SOAS library, and I'm still trying to persuade her to publish it!)<div>
<br></div><div>Keith Howard<div><div><span id="q_1310f64fdb230328_1" class="h4" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(80, 0, 80); font-size: 9px; ">- Hide quoted text -</span></div><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); ">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 July 2011 10:11, Dr Jim Hoare <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jimhoare64@aol.co.uk" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">jimhoare64@aol.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
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To: kevin <<a href="mailto:kevin@macosx.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">kevin@macosx.com</a>>; Korean Studies Discussion List <<a href="mailto:koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</a>><br>
Sent: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 2:06<br>Subject: Re: [KS] China Lays Claim to 'Arirang'<br><br><div>Hello all,<br><br>O. K., Korean Arirang is Chinese, than this American Arirang is - - - ?<br><i><b><br>Variations on a Korean Folk Song(Arirang)</b></i> by John Barnes Chance,1965<br>
<a href="http://www.jwpepper.com/mp3/0153544.mp3" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://www.jwpepper.com/mp3/0153544.mp3</a><br><br>Kwang-On Yoo<div><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:41 PM, kevin parks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin@macosx.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">kevin@macosx.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Greetings list members,<br><br>I thought I would see if I could beat Kwang-On Yoo to the punch. So FYI<br><br>China Lays Claim to 'Arirang'<br><br><a href="http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/06/23/2011062301297.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">http://english.chosun.com/<u></u>site/data/html_dir/2011/06/23/<u></u>2011062301297.html</a><br>
<br>Sort of a curious development.<br><br></blockquote></div></div></div></div></font></blockquote></div></div></div></div></span><br>-- <br>Keith Howard<div>Professor of Music, SOAS</div><div>Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG, UK</div>
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