Locations of skill -- Community and kinship in the Jiajiang hills -- Class and commerce -- Artisans into peasants -- Papermakers on the socialist road, 1949-1958 -- The Great Leap famine and rural deindustrialization -- The return to household production -- Paper trade and village industries in the reform era -- The Jiandanqiao Stele
Summary
Based on a study of rural papermakers in Sichuan, China, between 1920 and 2000, this book traces the changes in the distribution of knowledge that led to a massive transfer of technical control from villages to cities; from primary producers to managerial elites and from men to women
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-313) and index
Notes
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