Eating rice from bamboo roots
Subtitle: the social history of a community of handicraft papermakers in rural Sichuan, 1920-2000
By: Jacob Eyferth.
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs -- 314
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780674032880
Subjects: Paper industry -- China -- History; Paper industry -- China -- Jiajiang Xian -- History; Jiajiang Xian (China) -- Economic conditions
Description: Based on a study of rural papermakers in Sichuan, China, between 1920 and 2000, this book traces the changes in the distribution of knowledge that led to a massive transfer of technical control from villages to cities; from primary producers to managerial elites and from men to women.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.