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Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots

The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920–2000

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$45.00 • £33.95 • €40.50

ISBN 9780674032880

Publication: June 2009

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335 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

12 halftones, 2 maps, 3 tables

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    • Tables, Maps, and Illustrations
    • Weights, Measurements, and Money
    • Introduction
    1. Locations of Skill
    2. Community and Kinship in the Jiajiang Hills
    3. Class and Commerce
    4. Artisans into Peasants
    5. Papermakers on the Socialist Road, 1949 to 1958
    6. The Great Leap Famine and Rural Deindustrialization
    7. The Return to Household Production
    8. Paper Trade and Village Industries in the Reform era
    9. The Jiadangqiao Stele
    • Conclusion
    • Appendixes
    • A. Character List for Selected Chinese Names and Terms
    • B. Glossary of Selected Papermaking Terms
    • C. Main Paper Types and Their Markets in the Twentieth Century
    • Notes
    • Works Cited
    • Index

    Awards

    • 2011 Joseph Levenson Book Prize, Post-1900 Category, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
    Celebrating 100 Years of Excellence in Publishing: Harvard University Press Centennial, 1913-2013 [Picture of birthday cake]