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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.
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.
Introduction 1. Dongyang County 3 2. Traditional Woodcarving and Its Revolutionary Transformation-The First Transition of Tradition 3. Xia Qi Tan Village 4. Li Tang Village 5. Guo Zhai Town 6. Heng Dian Town 7. The Dongyang Woodcarving Factory and Economic Reform-The Second Transition of Tradition 8. Conclusion-Flexible Production in Dongyang?
Terry L Cooper, Yinhuo Jiang
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