- 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
HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS
Harvard East Asian Monographs 314
Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots
The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920–2000
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Publication Date: 06/30/2009
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