The artisans and entrepreneurs of Dongyang county : economic reform and flexible production in China / Eugene Cooper with Jiang Yinhuo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, Eugene, 1947-2015.

Contributor:

Jiang, Yinho, 1928-

Series:

Studies on contemporary China

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wood-carvers--China--Dongyang Xian (Zhejiang Sheng).

Wood-carvers.

Furniture workers--China--Dongyang Xian (Zhejiang Sheng).

Furniture workers.

Cabinetmakers--China--Dongyang Xian (Zhejiang Sheng).

Cabinetmakers.

Furniture industry and trade--China--Dongyang Xian (Zhejiang Sheng).

Furniture industry and trade.

Marxian economics.

Physical Description:

xx, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [1998]

Summary:

The book represents a continuation of research begun by Cooper in Hong Kong in the early 1970s among artisan furniture makers and woodcarvers from Dongyang County, Zhejiang Province. He now sets out to investigate the fate of the same craft in the hands of the same folk under totally different socio-economic conditions in their native county in communist People's Republic of China. Such a focus makes possible the isolation of systemic features of the socio-economic environment that influenced the evolution of the mode of production, with technical requirements of production and regional/ethnic variability held more or less constant.

Contents:

Tables and Illustrations vii

1. Dongyang County 3

2. Traditional Woodcarving and Its Revolutionary Transformation

The First Transition of Tradition 41

3. Xia Qi Tan Village 70

4. Li Tang Village 88

5. Guo Zhai Town 109

6. Heng Dian Town 124

7. The Dongyang Woodcarving Factory and Economic Reform

The Second Transition of Tradition 138

Appendix 1 Ham Production 183

Appendix 2 Camphor Tree Mothers 191

Appendix 3 The Huichang (Country Fair) Cycle 194

Appendix 4 Specimen Cheng bao Contract 209

Appendix 5 The Thirteen Room House 216

Appendix 6 Eight Immortals Cross the Sea (One Version of the Myth in Translation) 220.

Notes:

"An East Gate book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-261) and index.

ISBN:

0765603217

0765603225

OCLC:

38270806