Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920-2000

by Jacob Eyferth

This book charts the vicissitudes of a rural community of papermakers in Sichuan. The process of transforming bamboo into paper involves production-related and social skills, as well as the everyday skills that allowed these papermakers to survive in an era of tumultuous change. The Chinese revolution--understood as a series of interconnected political, social, and technological transformations--was, Jacob Eyferth argues, as much about the redistribution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674032888
• ISBN13: 9780674032880
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"