Author: AE

Jiangyong ICH Women’s Script Chinese folklore cultural transmission The Chinese ICH (intangible cultural heritage) program has created the conditions for the invention of a new phase within the well-known “Women’s Script” tradition in Jiangyong County,…

Baltistan script politics nation-building geopolitics Tibetan past Pakistan The Baltis mostly inhabit a region at the western edge of the Himalayas, also known as Baltistan. Today, Baltistan is considered to be a geographic and geopolitical border regi…

Drung (Dulong/T’rung) tattoo body femininity fertility reproduction This article examines the tradition of facial tattooing among Drung women in Yunnan province, China. Now obsolete, the practice of female tattooing—by puncturing the skin, causing blee…