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Ancient Dongba culture expected to endure in digital era

By Wu Jin: 0 Comment(s)Print E-mail China.org.cn, March 16, 2018

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Prof. Michael Oppitz speaks at the 2017 International Symposium on Dongba Ancient Manuscripts and Cultural Heritage Protection. Pictured with two research fellows, Zhang Xu (R) and Duncan Poupard (L). [Photo: Courtesy of ADCA]

According to Zhang, the team's undertaking of the protection of the Dongba culture has garnered immense support from overseas partners, such as the John Rylands Library of the University of Manchester, the French School of the Far East, the Harvard-Yenching Library and the Swedish National Museums of World Culture, which offered documents to Zhang and her team to copy free of charge.

Last year, Zhang, on behalf of the ADCA, signed a memorandum with the British Library launching a three-year exchange program to share the collection of the Dongba manuscripts and promote collaborative academic research using digital applications.

"You are dealing with the manuscripts of the Naxi in a really new manner," said Michael Oppitz, the German anthropologist, commenting on the project at an international symposium held last year in Beijing.

Oppitz commented that the process of digitalization has facilitated the group's efforts, aided by big data analysis, which, he said, is "a very important thing for future work on the Naxi and for the preservation project."

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