Bilingual Knowledge Translation for Public Understanding of Chinese Living Heritage

Practice Overview

The Bilingual Knowledge Translation for Public Understanding of Chinese Living Heritage is a long-term practice led by the World Intangible Cultural Heritage Federation (WICHF). The practice focuses on translating complex knowledge related to Chinese living heritage into structured, bilingual and publicly accessible information that can be more clearly understood by international audiences, educators, cultural practitioners and the wider public.

Rather than presenting heritage only as isolated cultural content, this practice organizes heritage-related information into internationally understandable forms. It combines knowledge structuring, bilingual explanation, contextual interpretation and public communication so that traditional crafts, cultural practices, transmission contexts and heritage-linked values can be communicated across linguistic and cultural boundaries.

• Core orientation Chinese living heritage, bilingual knowledge translation, public understanding and intercultural dialogue
• Working format Knowledge structuring, bilingual explanation, contextual interpretation and public communication
• Public role A stable public-facing project page for an ongoing WICHF practice

Why This Practice Matters

Chinese living heritage contains rich cultural knowledge, technical traditions, social memory, material understanding and community-based practices. However, in many international contexts, such knowledge is difficult to access, difficult to interpret and difficult to use because it is often fragmented, untranslated or embedded in highly local cultural contexts.

WICHF proposes this practice in order to reduce that gap. By creating a clearer bridge between Chinese heritage knowledge and international public understanding, the practice aims to support cultural literacy, improve accessibility, and make heritage-related information more understandable across different cultural backgrounds.

What WICHF Does

• Researching and organizing selected knowledge related to Chinese living heritage.
• Building structured information frameworks that make complex heritage content easier to understand.
• Developing bilingual explanation and internationally readable descriptions.
• Connecting heritage-related information with public communication, educational use and broader intercultural understanding.
• Supporting a clearer and more accessible presentation of heritage-linked knowledge for non-specialist audiences.

How the Practice Works

WICHF’s working method follows a continuous chain that turns complex heritage-related information into a more organized and internationally understandable public knowledge format.

1. Step 01 Selection and background research.
2. Step 02 Information structuring and classification.
3. Step 03 Bilingual translation and explanatory writing.
4. Step 04 Editorial review and public-facing publication.
5. Step 05 Periodic updating and long-term content accumulation.

Who This Practice Serves

• International readers seeking a clearer understanding of Chinese living heritage.
• Educators and students interested in culture, heritage and cross-cultural learning.
• Cultural practitioners and researchers.
• Institutions exploring heritage-related communication and public interpretation.
• Members of the public who wish to access heritage knowledge in a more understandable way.

Why This Supports Intercultural Dialogue

This practice supports intercultural dialogue by making culturally specific knowledge more understandable beyond its original linguistic and social context. Through bilingual explanation, contextual interpretation and structured presentation, the practice helps audiences from different backgrounds engage with living heritage in a more informed, respectful and meaningful way.

Its purpose is not only to describe cultural content, but also to improve mutual understanding across cultures by reducing barriers of language, context and interpretation.

Public Value and Long-Term Development

The public value of this practice lies in its effort to transform complex heritage-related knowledge into accessible, organized and educationally useful public information. In the long term, WICHF intends to continue developing this practice through accumulated content, refined explanation frameworks, bilingual editorial methods and wider public-facing interpretation work.

This page should therefore be understood as a stable project description page for an ongoing WICHF practice, not as a one-time campaign page or event announcement.

Published as a stable project page for long-term public reference and future institutional use.

About the Lead Entity

The World Intangible Cultural Heritage Federation (WICHF) is the lead entity of this practice. WICHF works on intangible cultural heritage-related communication, knowledge organization, bilingual interpretation and international-facing public-interest work. Its broader focus includes international understanding, information structuring, heritage-related standardization logic and long-term public communication.

• Official website: https://wichf.org/
• About WICHF: https://wichf.org/en/about

Contact and Institutional Dialogue

For institutional dialogue, educational exchange or public-interest communication related to this practice, visitors should be directed to WICHF’s official website contact channel.

Do not add personal names, phone numbers, institutional partner lists or unsupported collaboration claims to this page unless WICHF separately confirms them in writing.