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Eating rice from bamboo roots: the social history of a community of handicraft papermakers in rural Sichuan, 1920-2000

Jan Jacob Karl Eyferth
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Tables, Maps, and Illustrations (page xiii)
  • Weights, Measurements, and Money (page xv)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • 1 Locations of Skill (page 23)
  • 2 Community and Kinship in the Jiajiang Hills (page 45)
  • 3 Class and Commerce (page 68)
  • 4 Artisans into Peasants (page 92)
  • 5 Papermakers on the Socialist Road, 1949 to 1958 (page 116)
  • 6 The Great Leap Famine and Rural Deindustrialization (page 140)
  • 7 The Return to Household Production (page 158)
  • 8 Paper Trade and Village Industries in the Reform Era (page 180)
  • 9 The Jiadangqiao Stele (page 203)
  • Conclusion (page 219)
  • Appendixes
  • A Character List for Selected Chinese Names and Terms (page 235)
  • B Glossary of Selected Papermaking Terms (page 243)
  • C Main Paper Types and Their Markers in the Twentieth Century (page 249)
  • Reference Matter
  • Notes (page 255)
  • Works Cited (page 283)
  • Index (page 315)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAS 69.2 (May 2010): 551-553 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20721860
VSRH 105 (Jan. - Mar. 2010): 277-278 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40649777
TC 52.4 (Oct. 2011): 845-847 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23020552
HJAS 71.2 (Dec. 2011): 381-389 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/harvard_journal_of_asiatic_studies/v071/71.2.brokaw.html
EASTS 6.4 (2012): 569-571 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/east_asian_science_technology_and_society/v006/6.4.chung.html
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Published: 2009
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
ISBN(s)
  • 9780674032880 (hardcover)
  • 9781684174874 (ebook)
Series
  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Subject
  • Asian: China and Inner Asia
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