Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Artisans in Southwest China, 1920-2000 (Harvard East Asian Monographs): The Social ... Monographs (HUP))

by Jacob Eyferth (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2009

  $52.12

  The process of transforming bamboo into paper involves production-related and social skills, as well as the everyday skills that allowed Sichuan papermakers to survive in an era of tumultuous change. This book charts the vicissitudes of a rural community of papermakers in Sichuan.