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Keyi: a Museum Village of the Axi Yi: (20090630)

Many walls of the houses of Keyi are decorated also with paintings related to the culture of the Axi, animals, specially the tiger, musical instruments, dancing people, farming activities.

The "History of the Lahu" reevaluated: (20090623)

Every political action has a political purpose, and the results of academic works politically motivated must be deconstructed to separate the real facts from the political constructions.

Did the Yi give the name "China" to China?: (20090616)

In the last issue of the Sino -Platonic Papers, Geoff Wade (1) provides some evidence as to think that the name "China" refers to an old Yi nationality ruled polity: The old Kingdom of Yelang.

Wedding song of the Aini - Akha: (090602)

The singers express in this long song their best whishes to the newlyweds; with their hope that the new formed couple will be auspicious they transmit also a detailed account of the traditional way of life.

The script of Lisu bamboo books: (20090601)

Most of the bamboo books of the Lisu had also a religious purpose, but, as opposed to the foreign scripts, are books related to the Lisu traditional religion, with titles as "The creation of the world".

A book about the kinship system of the Nahing: (20090531)

There are many affinities between the Nahing people and the Na people of Yongning. The latter are well known for its unique system of "visit" marriage.

Danuohei: Stone Village of the Sani People: (20090527)

With most of its houses built of stone and the astonishing presence of more than one hundred old trees.

Market Day at Gasha Township: (20090513)

Every Sunday Dai women from the villages around Gasha attend the weekly market...some times attired with their best clothes, some times only with the conical hat that protects them from the burning sun.

Xinping Yi and Dai Autonomous County: (20090502)

The best known minority in Xinping are the Dai. Officially called Huayao Dai (Flowery Dai), this denomination includes at least three branches of the Dai, all them living in the banks of the Red River.

Zhuang Nationality in Wenshan Prefecture: (20090424)

Wenshan Prefecture possesses an ethnic diversity that makes it one of the most interesting places to travel.

The Miao in Hosie's Three Years in Western China: (20090422)

The following pages are intended to present a picture of Western China as the writer saw it in 1882, 1883, and 1884.

Among the Bulang of Nongyang (picts): (20090419)

Nonyang lies only several kilometers off Menghun, Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Prefecture. Situated in the soft hills west of Menghun is one of the best communicated Bulang villages. After Nongyang, mountains and mountains until the Burma border constitute the heart of the Bulang territory.

Cobweb clothes of the Kucong: (20090417)

This film is a search for the 40-year-old cobweb clothes. As we learn the old technique to make a cobweb cloth, we walk into the memories of the Kucong people and look at how they are faring today.

The religion of the Pai Yao: (20090413)

All these spirits originated in the human and animal world; because they think that after a person or an animal die his soul will become a spirit. It the dead were a good person the spirit will be a good one and a bad one if he was bad.

A documentary about the Wa in the Golden Triangle: (20090406)