Preserve Ethnic Culture, Promote Community Development
Spokespeople: Zeng Baohua, Wang Xianxia
Organization: Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences Community Development Research Center
E-mail: cds@public.km.yn.cn wangxx61@hotmail.com
Donor: The Ford Foundation Beijing Office
In 2002, the Community Development Research Center at YASS established five research bases in representative villages in Hani areas. The aim of the program is to provide policy makers and social workers with data originating in the community and that reflect a standard of social and economic development of Yunnan rural areas. The research base located in the Hani village of Malutang conducts the following programs:
Traditional Embroidery Production Program for Hani Village Women
Photography of Production Activities, Village Life and Customs by Villagers
Chronicles of Important Events in the Village by Villagers
Ethnic Ecology Research
Research of Change in Ethnic Dress and its Development
Hani Textile Arts in Jinping
2005/Color/DV/29min
Location: Jinping County, Yunnan
Filmmaker: Zeng Baohua
Organization: Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences Community Development Research Center
This film documents the disappearing Hani textile arts in Jinping County. It also documents the work of the Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences Community Development Research Center in the village in supporting the development of traditional Hani embroidery, a production activity of Hani women.
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