Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920–2000 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) – Jacob Eyferth Meest Verkocht

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 ab…