Bai YushengBonn International Graduate School – Oriental and Asian Studies Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Kontakt Contact eMail yusheng.bai@uni-bonn.deNr. 168/169 (2023) Rezensionen 196–98 {:en}You, Ziying: Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China. Incense is Kept Burning.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. 276 pp., ISBN 978-0-253-04636-9 (paperback). You Ziying’s monograph investigates how various actors and institutions engage with efforts to preserve and continue cultural traditions on the ground in northern rural China. Particularly, You focuses on the important role of folk literati, “a group of people who are skilled in classical Chinese, … von by Bai YushengShare