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Triadic Oral History Archive: Digital Archiving and Applied Practice of the "Workshop–Business–Kinship" Ecosystem in Hongdian Street, Jingdezhen

Author(s)

Yang Liu

Affiliation(s)

School of Digital Media Technology, Jiangxi Arts & Ceramics Technology Institute, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China

Abstract

As a typical community of traditional ceramic handicraft industry, Hongdian Street in Jingdezhen is facing the dual crises of intergenerational fault and lack of digitalization in its cultural memory of the trinity of "Workshop–Business–Kinship". Most of the existing studies focus on the single dimension of ceramic skills, lacking the construction of comprehensive oral history archives of the social and economic network and family inheritance of the craftsman community. This study uses oral history research methods, combined with digital humanities technology (audio and video recording, database construction, virtual reality display, etc.), to conduct systematic in-depth interviews with craftsmen, merchants, and family members in Hongdian Street, and to construct a three-dimensional oral history archive of "Workshop–Business–Kinship".

Keywords

Digital Humanities; Oral History Archives; Jingdezhen Hongdian Street; Workshop–Business–Kinship; Digitalization of Cultural Heritage

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