New PhD Ziying You and Professor Dorothy Noyes contributed to a special issue of the Journal of Folklore Research (52:2-3), UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Global Policy for Intangible Cultural Heritage, published simultaneously in book form by Indiana University Press and edited by Michael Dylan Foster and Lisa Gilman. Ziying’s case study, drawn from her dissertation research, is “Shifting Actors and Power Relations: Contentious Local Responses to the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary China.” Dorry contributed a commentary to the volume, entitled “From Cultural Forms to Policy Objects: Comparison in Scholarship and Policy.” Other case studies in the volume address Japan, Macedonia, Malawi, India, and South Korea; additional commentaries were contributed by Anthony Seeger and Valdimar Tr. Hafstein.