Three items from China have been listed as documentary heritage on the Asia Pacific regional register of UNESCO’s Memory of the World (MOW) Programme, the National Archives Administration of China said Thursday.
The listed items include archives relating to traditional teahouses in Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province, genealogical records of the communities of Huizhou in east China’s Anhui Province, and printing blocks housed at the Dege Sutra Printing House in Sichuan.
The decision was approved at the 10th General Meeting of the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific, convened from Tuesday to Wednesday in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
The collection of documents that record the tea-drinking business entrepreneurship in Chengdu comprises 6,345 items, spanning from 1903 to 1949. These materials take a wide range of forms, such as manuscripts, business documents and photographs.
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