This book offers fresh insights into the important theoretical and practical issues in the protection and utilization of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in China. It provides a systematic discussion on the cultural interpretation of ICH from different perspectives, exploring in depth the practice of protection and utilization of ICH in China, as well as ICH education and research.  To be more specific, based on cultural economics, cultural ecology, and cultural space theory, it explores the economic significance of the characteristics of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and its creative transformation and innovative development, analyzes the cultural ecological significance of ICH protection, and delves into the basic characteristics of the cultural space of ICH and the ways for its protection, inheritance, and development in the current context of cultural ecological protection. This book also summarizes in-depth considerations for ICH education and discipline development in China.

Yonglin Huang served as Vice President of Central China Normal University and is currently Director of the National Cultural Industry Research Center; Evaluation Expert for the National Social Science Fund, the Art Fund of the National Social Science Fund, and the Humanities and Social Science Research Project Evaluation Expert of the Ministry of Education; President of the Chinese New Literature Society; China Vice President of the Folklore Society; Director of the China Folklore Education Professional Committee; Vice President of the China Educational Accounting Society; Director of the Wuhan Culture and Technology Integration Expert Committee; “New Literature Review”, “Education Accounting Research” and “Wuhan Cultural and Creative Industry Development Report” Editor-in-Chief; etc. He has long been engaged in cultural industry, folk literature, folk culture, Internet culture, and education accounting management and policy research. He is Academic Leader and Doctoral Program Leader of the emerging interdisciplinary “Cultural Resources and Cultural Industry”.