The development of oral history and studies on cultural heritage have been obstructed by the fact that they were not included in the education system as a discipline, said Zhou Xinguo, former president of Yangzhou University, at the International Symposium on Local Experience and Pluralistic Development of International Oral History held by the Institute of Modern History (IMH) under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from Dec. 26 to 27, 2016 in Guangzhou. Officially including them into education will promote the development of oral history in China by coordinating with the UNESCO’s efforts to protect human oral and memory heritage, Zhou said. Transcripts of oral history, which were processed by memory, presented by narration and collected by oral history researchers, will no doubt have some discrepancies with the objective historical facts, said Zuo Yuhe, a research fellow from IMH, adding historians should be able to discover the truth from the memories.
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