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

by Cooper; Terry L

• ISBN13: 9780765603210
• ISBN10: 0765603217
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-31
• Publisher: Routledge

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