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Author Eyferth, Jan Jacob Karl, 1962- author.

Title Eating rice from bamboo roots : the social history of a community of handicraft papermakers in rural Sichuan, 1920-2000 / Jacob Eyferth
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 335 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Series Harvard East Asian monographs ; 314
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 314.
Contents 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
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Subject Paper industry -- China -- History
Paper industry -- China -- Jiajiang Xian -- History
Economic history
Paper industry
Business & Economics.
Industries.
Papier
Papierherstellung
Sozialgeschichte
Handwerker
Bambusverarbeitung
Paper industry -- China -- Sichuan Sheng -- History.
Papperstillverkning -- historia -- Kina.
SUBJECT Jiajiang Xian (China) -- Economic conditions
Subject China
China -- Jiajiang Xian
Sichuan
China
Sichuan Sheng (China) -- Economic conditions.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009007044
ISBN 9781684174874
1684174872