{"product_id":"eating-rice-from-bamboo-roots-jacob-eyferth-9780674032880","title":"Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920-2000","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacob Eyferth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674032888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674032880\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 335\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.20d","brand":"Jacob Eyferth","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086756622591,"sku":"9780674032880","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1a4e25cf-971f-44bd-9dae-25acceb819c1.jpg?v=1769096397","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/eating-rice-from-bamboo-roots-jacob-eyferth-9780674032880","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}