02203nas a2200181   4500008004100000245009400041210006900135300001400204520150400218653002701722653001701749653003001766653001701796653002201813100001201835700001301847856016101860       2022                        eng d00aThe “ICH Movement” in China: The Status of Traditional Musics after ICH Certification0 aICH Movement in China The Status of Traditional Musics after ICH  a101–1173 aAlong with the Kunqu Art and Guqin Art over 10 kinds of Chinese traditional music genres have been accepted into the Representative List of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Considering this a national honor, the central government in China soon established a series of policies for the preservation of ICH. Next, local governments from cities and provinces started to support these policies. The country institutionalized an ICH system from county, city, and province level to state level. Government officials, academics and intellectuals, NGOs, mass media, commercial institutions, and culture bearers began to reconsider musical traditions in terms of their complexity from an ICH perspective, and actively engaged in the safeguarding and promotion of ICH in different ways over the past decade, which we may call the “ICH movement in China.” This chapter focuses on 11 kinds of music genres to observe what role the government played in classifying the extreme abundance of Chinese traditional music forms and qualifying them as ICH at different grades. What are the actual effects of various safeguarding policies and acts that have been carried out by different levels of government? What kind of dynamic relationships exist between the different forces in shaping this ICH movement and the future of traditional music in China? Based on their research data, the authors discuss some sensitive but core issues about Chinese traditional music vis-à-vis the ICH movement.10acompound dynamic field10aICH movement10ainstitution of inheritors10aperformances10atraditional music1 aMei, X.1 aXiao, Y.  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85144378489&doi=10.1093%2foso%2f9780197609101.003.0006&partnerID=40&md5=f8278c86399ae4e2ce3f4d8fa8323d9f