Two National-level Social Science Monographs Published

Recently, two monographs from the National Social Science Fund project: Methodological Research on Inheritors’ Oral History and Evolution and Inheritance: Research on Imperial Heavenly Queen Temple in Tianjin During Modern Society Transition Period were published. Not only are they regarded as masterpieces of domestic humanities and social science but also lay a solid foundation for theory construction of inheritors’ oral history and its academic development.

"Methodological research on inheritors’ oral history” is one of the sub-projects of the 2011 National Society and Science Fund major project “Data base construction of Chinese New Year wood-block pictures and methodological research of inheritors’ oral history”. It is also TJU’s first major project of the National Social Science Fund. “Inheritors’ oral history, proposed by Professor Feng Jicai is in the process of salvaging Chinese folk-culture legacy and is a new academic concept. After ten years of practice it has become a basic method for generally investigating and studying intangible cultural heritage. In order to construct a systematic theory and methodology, Dean Feng Jicai, as the project's chief, led his team to finish the first domestic theory monograph about inheritors’ oral history. The book analyzes inheritors’ character, the core and cultural mode of inheritors’ oral history in academic terms and summarizes the operation, practices and skills of inheritors’ oral history methodology to form a specific, concrete, realistic and methodical system. Its publication not only makes inheritors’ oral history stand out in the field of humanities and social science as a discipline but also provides a theoretical and methological reference for cultural heritage conservation at home and abroad.