The congress gathered more than hundred practitioners and national and international experts and researchers who presented papers on different thematic areas and addressed many crucial issues, fundamental and new theoretical approaches and good practices related to folklore in South-Asian context with special reference to Nepal.

UNESCO: Intangible culture focus of Fourth International Folklore Congress in Kathmandu | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

While not an exact scientific measure, a sampling of U.S. doctrinal writings on IW could provide a useful frame of reference and possibly some context for comparison between Chinese and American thinking.

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