The Civilization of Paper in Villages: An Investigation and Research on the Culture of Papercutting of Ethnic Minorities in China is a monographic series presenting the field research studies on Chinese traditional papercut conducted by the Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Center of the Central Academy of Fine Arts for 15 years. The series has 8 volumes, archiving for the first time the research information about Chinese papercut, a world-class intangible cultural heritage and more than 20 ethnic minorities such as Tibetan, Dai, Hani, and Bulang. With a total of more than 2 million Chinese words and nearly 10,000 pictures, it shows the readers the diversity of ethnic culture and paper-cutting art in China.