The Artisans and Entrepreneurs of Dongyang County: Economic Reform and Flexible Production in China: Economic Reform and Flexible Production in China,9780765603210

The Artisans and Entrepreneurs of Dongyang County: Economic Reform and Flexible Production in China: Economic Reform and Flexible Production in China

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ISBN13: 9780765603210
ISBN10: 0765603217
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-07-31
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

The book represents a continuation of research begun by Cooper in Hong Kong in the early 1970s among expatriate 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.

Author Biography

Eugene Cooper is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chinese Studies at the University of Southern California

Table of Contents

Tables and Illustrations
vii(2)
Introduction ix(10)
Abbreviations xix
1. Dongyang County
3(38)
2. Traditional Woodcarving and Its Revolutionary Transformation--The First Transition of Tradition
41(29)
3. Xia Qi Tan Village
70(18)
4. Li Tang Village
88(21)
5. Guo Zhai Town
109(15)
6. Heng Dian Town
124(14)
7. The Dongyang Woodcarving Factory and Economic Reform--The Second Transition of Tradition
138(30)
8. Conclusion--Flexible Production in Dongyang?
168(15)
Appendices 183(44)
Appendix 1: Ham Production 183(8)
Appendix 2: Camphor Tree Mothers 191(3)
Appendix 3: The Huichang (Country Fair) Cycle 194(15)
Appendix 4: Specimen Cheng bao Contract 209(7)
Appendix 5: The Thirteen Room House 216(4)
Appendix 6: Eight Immortals Cross the Sea (One Version of the Myth in Translation) 220(7)
Glossary 227(26)
Bibliography 253(10)
Index 263

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