Cambridge professor on culture conservation

Alan Macfarlane, professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and fellow of the British Academy, said at Vision China that China has preserved better than almost anywhere else in the world the cultural heritage of minority ethnic groups.

He noted that what is important to save is their (living people's) whole life, so their songs, their music, their agricultural systems, their dances, their family life, all that, if possible, should be recorded.