This week qiangzu.com raised a total of 5,147 $ for Haiti earthquake relief. We showed pictures of both the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake as well as the recent disaster in Haiti in Wenchuan city square. This raised both awareness and funds for the Haiti earthquake.
Project Updates
01/19/2010
01/12/2010
Today I met with native Qiang linguist Zhou Fa Cheng to ask questions about language research and Qiang culture in general. I also made arrangements to meet with someone from Lapu village to help me translate a traditional story i recorded last time while there.
01/06/2010
Last week I had the opportunity to attend both a Qiang traditional wedding and funeral. The entire trip lasted five days and while there I got to experience a lot, met new people, and started recording a Qiang folk story for later linguistic work. I'll post pics of the trip on this website but until then you can find them at
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=176583&id=525849879&l=27b82de3c4
and
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=109322&id=525849879&l=900e346352
enjoy
12/26/2009
Attended the Chinese National Intangible Culture Preservation Committee Meeting on Friday the 24th. The meeting's focus was preservation of endangered cultural practices in Sichuan China and had a emphasis on Qiang culture in particular.
I had the chance to meet with Qiang cultural experts and representatives from Maoxian and Wenchuan counties to discuss preservation of Qiang intangible culture.
I also met with native Qiang linguist 余晓平, who had helpful advice and suggestions for language survey and revitalization.
12/15/2009
This week I started working on my third Qiang dialect wordlist. This one for a variety spoken in northern Heishui county. Have got 125 of the total 450 transcribed and recorded so far. I‘m still working on the Chibusu dialect wordlist (250 words to go), and organizing/correcting my data from the Yonghe township dialect.
When I'm finished, these lists should tell me a good deal about the similarities between these three dialects and possibly how well the speakers can understand each other.
Am hoping to post a rough sketch of the dialect groupings based off previous survey of Qiang dialects as well as some more pictures on here soon.
All for now,
Nate