Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots

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

Jacob Eyferth

    • 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
  • Cover: Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots

Jacob Eyferth is Assistant Professor of Chinese History at the University of Chicago.