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      • Ediciones Culturales Internacionales, S.A.

        Ediciones Culturales Internacionales is a Spanish publishing house founded in 1983. Is currently one of the most experienced companies in the publishing field. Specialized in the production and publishing of books, it is distributed in various Latin American countries. Ediciones Culturales Internacionales has projected itself as a leading publishing company in its field, being a participant in the cultural and intellectual life of our country. Our Mission: Edit books with the highest quality in terms of materials and content. Our commitment is to satisfy all the needs and expectations of our clients, fulfilling a primary purpose: to continually improve and promote the cultural enrichment of the whole family, providing them with products of the highest editorial quality.  Our Vision: To be recognized as one of the most important publishers in our country, by offering products of the highest quality. Spread knowledge and culture through attractive products for all ages, and thus contribute to the advancement of education at different levels, both in Mexico and in other Latin American countries. The collection of Ediciones Culturales Internacionales includes works for all educational levels; It covers all topics of interest to today's needs: dictionaries, encyclopedias, language courses, popular and classical music, languages, art, literature and health. Principles of Philosophy Focus all the human and technical resources of the company to promote the cultural development of the family. Establish the ECISA name as a symbol of the highest editorial quality. Orient the individual efforts of the entire organization to meet the needs of our internal and external clients with professionalism. Ensure the physical and environmental conditions necessary for the full performance of people in their work. Offer a safe source of work, with fair remuneration, which allows comprehensive development and improves the quality of life of employees. Support the development of the community, responsibly complying with all legal and social provisions; create and maintain sources of work.

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        Narrative History of National Representative Intangible Heritage Population in Hunan Province(Volume One)

        by Ye Weiping

        According to the deployment of the Cultural Reform and Development Plan of the Ministry of Culture during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, the Ministry of Culture launched the “Rescue Record Project for Representative Inheritors of National Intangible Cultural Heritage” in 2015. The purpose is to strengthen the construction of intangible cultural heritage inheritors and effectively protect and inherit national intangible cultural heritage projects. The Hunan Provincial Department of Culture has actively carried out the recommendation, application and review of the fifth batch of representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage projects. A total of 54 representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage projects have been sorted out and their oral materials have been sorted out. .

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        Children's & YA

        Huabobo

        by Zhang Jizhou

        Huabobo, literally flower-shaped steamed buns, refers to a traditional local delicacy deeply loved by people in east China's Shandong Province. The craft of making Huabobo has a history that dates back more than 300 years, and was listed as a Shandong provincial intangible cultural heritage in 2009.   The picture book Huabobo presents the source, making process, and related traditional customs of this unique traditional food. Each Huabobo is created out of wheat. A grain of wheat can be ground into flour after jointing, heading, harvesting, and then it can be made into the steamed Huabobo through flour mixing, flour kneading, shaping, and coloring. The whole process is long and full of hustle and bustle. The book is accompanied by an introductory guide from which the readers could learn to make three kinds of Huabobo by following the videos.

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        Little Puppets in the Shadow Play

        by Xu Haifeng, Zhang Mengxue

        "Clang-clang-clang, clank-clank-clank." With a gong, an oil lamp, a curtain and a few shadow puppets, a brilliant performance is going on. Bao'er is not interested in this old trick at all, so he makes a total mess of his grandpa's shadow play. However, it is the "insignificant" shadow play that comes to Bao'er's rescue at a critical moment. Is it a dream? Will Bao'er change his attitude toward shadow play? Don't worry. Puppet play, an intangible cultural heritage, has just begun in the light and shadow...

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        Art treatments & subjects
        January 2010

        Understanding heritage and memory

        by Tim Benton

        Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this authoritative text explores the emotive issues surrounding the commemoration of war and atrocity, and the profound challenges for conservators posed by 'virtual', 'intangible' and 'multicultural' heritage. New international case studies demonstrate that while interest in the memorialisation of the great national upheavals of the last century has never been more acute, many of the problems of conserving the past in diverse and disparate societies remain to be resolved. Aimed primarily at students in heritage studies and professionals in heritage industries, this book is one of three in the Understanding Global Heritage series.

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        The Arts

        The Civilization of Paper in Villages

        An Investigation and Research on the Culture of Papercutting of Ethnic Minorities in China

        by Qiao Xiaoguang

        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.

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        November 2023

        Tourism, heritage and commodification of non-human animals

        a post-humanist reflection

        by Álvaro López-López, Gino Jafet Quintero Venegas, Carol Kline, Tomas Arias, Jean Azcatl Pineda, Alicia Mariana Penélope Castro Pérez, Bobbie Chew Bigby, Émilie Crossley, Johan Edelheim, Georgina Flores, Carolin Funck, Leonardo Garavito-González, Yulei Guo, Jes Hooper, Brenda Martínez Velasco, Alejandro Morales, Gustavo Ortiz-Millán, Mateo Nicolás Rico Medina, Jorge Iván Ruiz Barrera, Javed Salim, Estephania Sepúlveda Perdomo, Rie Usui, David A. Varela-Trejo, Nusrat Yasmeen

        Heritage is a social construction rooted in modern and contemporary societies. It is commonly a positive assessment of many elements of the physical and human environment (e.g. ecosystems and landscapes, monuments, customs, gender norms, religious practices, gastronomy, and livelihoods). Heritage and tourism are strongly related to each other in that heritage gives rise to tourist attractions and activities, and tourism enhances the designation of heritage sites. Non-human animals (hereafter 'animals') are present as implicit or explicit heritage elements through multiple tourist environments: animals may be themselves the heritage focus of tourist interest (visual arts, gastronomy, as charismatic and distinguished beings, as part of festivities or rituals), or it may be that animals are agents involved in heritage tourist environments such as working animals or in recreational activities. A post-humanist perspective the moral valuation of equality between humans and other animals demands that both are sentient beings and self-aware of their pain and pleasure. Thus, the involvement of animals as heritage elements by themselves or as an element of tourist consumption in heritage sites implies their commodification and lack of agency. As such, these practices are usually unethical, since they threaten the animals' primary interests: not to suffer, not to feel pain and to be able to live their freedom. This book contains chapters that reveal both the unethical interactions between humans and animals within heritage tourism, and those that show experiences in which efforts are made to minimize damage within the commercialization of animals involved as heritage themselves. It will be of interest to postgraduate students, academics, NGOs and tourism planners.

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        June 2019

        The Treasure Bowl

        by Xiao Aozi

        The Treasure Bowl tells a story of traditional punishment for evil and reward for goodness using a vivid expression of Chinese paper cutting art (national intangible cultural heritage). The theme is lively, so that the values of punishing evil and rewarding goodness always live in the hearts of good people.

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        The Arts
        December 2017

        Study on Dong Minority's Festivals and Measures of Intellectual Property Protection

        by Wu Bo

        Dong Minority boasts abundant folk festivals that needs intellectual property protection. To conduct such measure is the tendency of protection of intangible cultural heritage, and also the necessary operation technique.   侗族因为其特殊的历史成因形成了大量的民间节会,具备丰富的节会文化资源。因此,对节会资源进行产权保护,既是非物质文化遗产保护的一个发展趋势,也是一种必要的操作技术。本书稿从侗族民间节会的分布特征、文化价值、传承保护与开发利用中存在的问题引申出侗族民间节会知识产权保护制度的构建,引导行政力量和民间社会对侗族民间节会合理运用、保护开发。该书稿被列为2010年国家社科基金项目“侗族民间节会知识产权的保护与对策研究”。 Due to its special historical causes, the Wa people have formed a large number of folk festivals and have rich festival cultural resources. Therefore, the protection of property rights of festival resources is not only a development trend of intangible cultural heritage protection, but also a necessary operation technology. The draft of this book draws on the construction of the intellectual property protection system of the Dai folk festivals from the distribution characteristics, cultural values, inheritance protection, development and utilization of the Dai folk festivals, and guides the administrative forces and civil society to make reasonable use of the Dai folk festivals Protect development. The draft was listed as the 2010 National Social Science Fund Project "Research on the Protection and Countermeasures of the Intellectual Property Rights of the Dong Folk Festival".

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        August 2013

        The Crucial Ten Years: Chinese Experience of Cultural Heritage Protection

        by Shan Jixiang

        Consisting of three volumes, Crucial Ten Years mainly focuses on China urban design, China cultural heritage preservation and museums establishment. The preservation of our cultural heritage has never been this important due to the acceleration of the urbanization process. With his solid experience, Jixiang Shan, the author, has revealed the importance of heritage and museum establishment in a brand new way. This book was sponsored by Chinese government as a national publishing project.

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        The Arts
        May 2021

        Development, architecture, and the formation of heritage in late twentieth-century Iran

        A vital past

        by Ali Mozaffari, Nigel Westbrook

        This book analyses the use of the past and the production of heritage through architectural design in the developmental context of Iran, a country that has endured radical cultural and political shifts in the past five decades. Offering a trans-disciplinary approach toward complex relationship between architecture, development, and heritage, Mozaffari and Westbrook suggest that transformations in developmental contexts like Iran must be seen in relation to global political and historical exchanges, as well as the specificities of localities. The premise of the book is that development has been a globalizing project that originated in the West. Transposed into other contexts, this project instigates a renewed historical consciousness and imagination of the past. The authors explore the rise of this consciousness in architecture, examining the theoretical context to the debates, international exchanges made in architectural congresses in the 1970s, the use of housing as the vehicle for everyday heritage, and forms of symbolic public architecture that reflect monumental time.

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        December 2019

        Tanjing Prefecture

        by Liu Yichun

        During the reign of Emperor Guangxu Wuxu, Tantou New Year paintings were deeply loved by the Empress Dowager Cixi. Many owners of Tantou New Year painting workshops started to scramble for their products as tributes. Through the decline and fall of Hexiangfang and the ups and downs of Lameifang, as well as the joys and sorrows of the descendants of the two workshops, Zhong Duoduo and Huang Mingjian, the work narrates the development history of Tantou New Year Pictures, a national intangible cultural heritage, and shows the paper culture of Tanzhen. With the characteristics of the ancient town.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        2021

        Ukraine. Food and History

        by Olena Braichenko, Maryna Hrymych, Ihor Lylo, Vitaly Reznichenko

        This book tells the story of Ukrainian cuisine by placing it in its cultural context and presenting Ukrainian cooking as part of the intangible cultural heritage of Ukraine. The publication also explores the potential of cultural diplomacy and includes recipes that will make you fall in love with Ukraine.

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        Fiction

        Endless digging every day

        by Lin Nabei

        The latest full-length novel by renowned contemporary writer Lin Nabei uses the intangible cultural heritage of “lacquer” as a vehicle to tell the story of a peculiar family in the coastal region of Fujian. Starting from an illusory fortune in the mouth of the protagonist Zhao Dingli, the novel creates a real spiritual event that stirs up a small painful point in life in an unexpected way, intertwining it with the ancient history, the depth of humanity and the noisy contemporary cultural landscape.

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        Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        January 2018

        Bamboo Engraving in Baoqing: Traditional Chinese Engraving Art

        by Zhang Zongfan

        As a national-level cultural heritage, bamboo engraving in Baoqing enjoys a great reputation. This book mainly introduces this precious engraving technique from five aspects: history, categories, materials and tools, production process, and artistic features. In the fourth part, methods of engraving in bamboo outer skin, bamboo root, and bamboo reed are the emphasis, which can help you have a clear understanding of the process. Also, through this book, you have the opportunity to enjoy the fine collection of bamboo engraving in Baoqing created by the author and other great masters.

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        Fiction
        2017

        Summer Rains

        Winner of the 2018 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Young Author

        by Ahmad Al Qarmalawi

        Using music as a thread that connects the past to the present, this novel explores what happens when traditional and cultural heritage clash with modernity. The characters face the impact of modernization on heritage and arts versus the need to protect and preserve their traditional culture and must choose between the pursuit of materialism versus spiritual balance. Al Qarmalawi writes about a wide range of music from Sufism to the present era of electronic musical arts, and Summer Rains addresses the current Arab youth crisis, in which young people find themselves torn between fundamentalism and modernity. (An extended English-language report on this book will be available soon.)

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        Business, Economics & Law
        January 2020

        Sustainable Destination Branding and Marketing

        Strategies for Tourism Development

        by Anukrati Sharma, Juan Ignacio Pulido-Fernández, Azizul Hassan

        Destination branding and marketing form the backbone of tourism industry growth, but it is increasingly important that the strategies employed consider and promote sustainable solutions. This book provides a comprehensive set of tools and techniques for branding and marketing for sustainable tourism development. It blends tourism and marketing strategies with practical, innovative information technology solutions and a psychological perspective, providing illustrative case studies and examples to aid understanding. Addressing opportunities and challenges across the field, it also reviews how different types of tourism such as community based, accessible, film, agricultural and cultural-heritage tourism entail unique issues for development. Competition between destinations has led to a real need for different strategies in order to differentiate the tourism product. This book: - Uniquely covers both marketing and branding of a destination from a sustainability perspective; - Considers the role of emotions and experiences when advertising a destination; - Brings together a set of global authors to provide a varied and universally applicable approach to the subject. A thought-provoking read for anyone interested in questions of sustainability in destinations, this book provides an invaluable resource for researchers of tourism, marketing and international development studies as well as destination managers.

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        Tourism industry
        May 2016

        Heritage Tourism Destinations

        Preservation, Communication and Development

        by Edited by Maria D. Alvarez, Atila Yüksel, Frank Go

        Heritage tourism is tied to myth making and stories; creative content that can be shared, stored, combined and manipulated, but that depends on a unique cultural or natural history. A significant section of the wider phenomenon that is cultural tourism, heritage tourism is a demand-driven industry that continues to be a subject of heated debate in academic circles. Beginning with an overview of the subject, this book considers the conservation and revitalization of heritage destinations, as well as the role local communities have in supporting an attraction. It then discusses product development and communication around the world, using new techniques such as social media and examples from food tourism and sporting events, before a final section reviews the planning and institutionalisation of heritage spaces. A timely conclusion subsequently considers the implications of developments such as globalisation, technological improvement and climate change upon these unique destinations. A valuable addition to the literature, this book is the first to bridge the gap between theory and practice, including the latest research and international case studies for researchers and practitioners in tourism and destination management.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2024

        Heritage and healing in Syria and Iraq

        by Zena Kamash

        This book explores what to do with heritage that has been destroyed in conflict. It charts a path through the colonial histories and traumatic wars of Syria and Iraq to examine the projects and responses currently on offer and assess their flaws and limitations, including issues of digital colonialism, technological solutionism, geopolitical manoeuvring, media bias and community exclusion. Drawing on current research into the psychology and neuroscience of trauma and trauma recovery, and taking inspiration from artists and creative thinkers who challenge the status quo, this book envisages gentler, creative and ethically-driven ways to respond to heritage damaged in conflict that recentre people and their hopes, dreams and needs at the heart of these debates.

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