About Living Heritage China

Living Heritage China publishes clear English guides to Chinese cultural heritage for readers who want to understand materials, making, performance, place, and meaning. Our contact address is hongyu.hg@gmail.com.

Our coverage connects living traditions with the objects, records, and techniques that help explain them. A historic museum object is evidence for its own materials and history; it is not a substitute for documenting every present-day practice.

Guides introduce Chinese names, regional context, materials and tools, processes, uses, and cultural meaning. Topic pages bring related crafts, performances, festivals, oral traditions, and knowledge systems together. Comparisons explain distinctions that are easy to lose in translation.

The publication is independent of the museums, heritage bodies, and practitioners cited in its guides. A source link identifies evidence and further reading; it does not imply endorsement or a partnership.

We use public heritage records, museum catalogues, research, and other identifiable sources. Our editorial standards require original explanations, careful attribution, and clear limits where a source cannot establish a claim.

AI tools assist research, drafting, editing, and some illustrations. They are not factual authorities. Museum photographs and generated illustrations serve different purposes; see our image policy for the distinction.

If a guide misstates a name, community, process, date, translation, or image credit, send the page URL and supporting evidence through our contact page. Read our editorial standards and privacy policy for more detail.