Isbn: 9780674032880 - eating rice from bamboo roots: the social history of a community of handicraft papermakers in rural sichuan, 1920–2000: 314 (harvard east asian monographs) (18 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. *Veteran-Owned, Family-Run, Small Book Store in the Pacific Northwest* / roughly 30 pages with underlining, highlighting and notes; otherwise the book is LIKE NEW.

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Condición: New.

Hardback. Condición: New. This book charts the vicissitudes of a rural community of papermakers in Sichuan. The process of transforming bamboo into paper involves production-related and social skills, as well as the everyday skills that allowed these papermakers to survive in an era of tumultuous change. The Chinese revolution-understood as a series of interconnected political, social, and technological transformations-was, Jacob Eyferth argues, as much about the redistribution of skill, knowledge, and technical control as it was about the redistribution of land and political power.The larger context for this study is the "rural-urban divide": the institutional, social, and economic cleavages that separate rural people from urbanites. 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 women to men. It asks how a vision of rural people as unskilled has affected their place in the body politic and contributed to their disenfranchisement. By viewing skill as a contested resource, subject to distribution struggles, it addresses the issue of how revolution, state-making, and marketization have changed rural China.…

HRD. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9780674032880. …

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Condición: New. 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. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 425 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB; JFSF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 660. . 2009. Hardcover. . . . . …

Condición: New.

Condición: New. xiv 335 8 of lates Illus., 2 Maps.

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Hardback. Condición: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condición: New. 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. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 425 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB; JFSF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 660. . 2009. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Condición: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 425 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Condición: New. xiv 335 8 of lates, 2 Maps.

Hardback. Condición: New. This book charts the vicissitudes of a rural community of papermakers in Sichuan. The process of transforming bamboo into paper involves production-related and social skills, as well as the everyday skills that allowed these papermakers to survive in an era of tumultuous change. The Chinese revolution-understood as a series of interconnected political, social, and technological transformations-was, Jacob Eyferth argues, as much about the redistribution of skill, knowledge, and technical control as it was about the redistribution of land and political power.The larger context for this study is the "rural-urban divide": the institutional, social, and economic cleavages that separate rural people from urbanites. 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 women to men. It asks how a vision of rural people as unskilled has affected their place in the body politic and contributed to their disenfranchisement. By viewing skill as a contested resource, subject to distribution struggles, it addresses the issue of how revolution, state-making, and marketization have changed rural China.…