作者:
Jacob Eyferth 出版社: Harvard University Asia Center 副标题: The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920-2000 出版年: 2009-6-30 页数: 335 定价: USD 45.00 装帧: Hardcover 丛书:The Harvard East Asian Monographs ISBN: 9780674032880
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 technologic...
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.
作者简介
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Jacob Eyferth is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Department of History, and the College, University of Chicago.
目录
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Tables, Maps, and Illustrations
Weights, Measurements, and Money
Introduction
1. Locations of Skill
2. Community and Kinship in the Jiajiang Hills
3. Class and Commerce
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Tables, Maps, and Illustrations
Weights, Measurements, and Money
Introduction
1. Locations of Skill
2. Community and Kinship in the Jiajiang Hills
3. Class and Commerce
4. Artisans into Peasants
5. Papermakers on the Socialist Road, 1949 to 1958
6. The Great Leap Famine and Rural Deindustrialization
7. The Return to Household Production
8. Paper Trade and Village Industries in the Reform Era
9. The Jiadangqiao Stele
Conclusion
Appendixes
A. Character List for Selected Chinese Names and Terms
B. Glossary of Selected Papermaking Terms
C. Main Paper Types and Their Markets in the Twentieth Century
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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The Harvard East Asian Monographs (共266册),
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《Japanese Studies of Modern China since 1953》,《Fei Xiaotong and Sociology in Revolutionary China》,《Single-whip Method of Taxation in China》,《Men of Letters Within the Passes》,《Modernity with a Cold War Face》 等。
He describes the elaborate social infrastructure that supported paper making in Jiajiang and traces the impact that repeated government efforts to restructure the countryside and modernize the paper i...He describes the elaborate social infrastructure that supported paper making in Jiajiang and traces the impact that repeated government efforts to restructure the countryside and modernize the paper industry had on the social infrastructure and the organization of papermaking in Jiajiang. 演讲见 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w98_XW0WFuo(展开)
The author's interests: 1.Production-related skills. (technical, social) 2. the skills of everyday life. Quotidian strategies. The argument of the book: the Chinese revolution was as much about the redistribution of skill, knowledge, and technical control as it was about the redistribution of land and political power. Context: rural-urban divide: Argument: this gap is caused in the distribution...(1回应)
2019-12-03 15:145人喜欢
The author's interests:
1.Production-related skills. (technical, social)
2. the skills of everyday life. Quotidian strategies.
The argument of the book: the Chinese revolution was as much about the redistribution of skill, knowledge, and technical control as it was about the redistribution of land and political power.
Context: rural-urban divide:Argument: this gap is caused in the distribution of knowledge bt rural and urban China date to the beginning of the 20th c.
Chinese craft industries survived relatively intact into the mid of 20c. (2)
Focus: rural industries.
(my question: when looking at rural industries, how our understandings of the 20th china's economic dynamics change?)
"The countryside, by contrast, was the realm of farmers who produced food for the nation but could not or should not produce industrial goods to any significant degree. This view of an economy which distinct rural and urban sectors was inaccurate as a description of Chinese realities, but it was a powerful prescription for change. " 3
James Scott, "state simplification".-> in China, sector-making.
A model of rural people (5) "a culturally distinct and alien 'other', passive, helpless, unenlightened.."
The illusional link between a farmer and the land. (6)
?? "land in itself has value only insofar as it can be made to yield products, a process that requires skill."
“social life in the countryside is centrally concerned with the production and reproduction of economically useful skill, because economic activity is impossible without skill. ”
Skill and Organization:
Francois Sigaut: all social organization is at least partially about the production of skill.
How seeing skill reproduction as a central function alter our understanding of social organization?
Kinship: "Kinship and technical competence overlap so much."7
looking at skills "helps us to see patterns of social organization that remain hidden as long as we think of ritual people as land-based peasants."
Paper: Production of symbol of China's literary and bureaucratic culture.
Peasant as self-sufficient cells in China:
Rural people were differently integrated into the body politic (10): self-sufficient cells, removed from the web of mutual dependency and exchange of which they had been part.
"each individual peasant stood in the same unspecific relationship to the whole: unconnected to people outside the village community, he or she faced only in two directions, down to the soil and up to the state. (11)
Deskilling:
Harry Braverman: the inexorable "degradation of work" under capitalism.
critiques: 1. skill is constructed by powerful groups to exclude competitiors.
2. skill is constantly reproduced in the labor process.
Scottian: the dispossession of subaltern groups is the result of the pursuit of a modern vision of a world liberated from material want. 12
Focus of the book: a process of state-led skill expropriation began in 1920s.
*The nature of skill:
real or discursively constructed?
physically embodied or socially embedded? (14)
Two bodies of literature:
1) phenomenological philosophy (skill is central to the human condition)
2) cognitive science research. Scaffolding. 15
Skill is located at the interface between the person and his/her surroundings. 16
It is distributed across a field of relations.-> explain why the state never succeeded in transplanting Jiajiang papermaking skills to places outside. 16
Skill as a historical category:
"skill constitute a sort of meeting ground between big historical processes…and the concrete experience of everyday life." 17
Organization of the book:
Chapter1: papermaking technology, division of labor, the developmental cycle of household workshops, the transmission of the skills.
2: markets and intermediate organizations.
3: the position of papermaking in the late Qing and Republican China.
4,5: Shiyan village during land revolution and collectivization. ( a gradual deskilling of papermakers with the increasing state control)
6: Great LF and the subsequent famine.(black market trades)
7,8: post-Mao. Revival of the industry and technological revolution, struggles of the small household workshops.
9: reconnect the social tissue and to repair the structures.
The author's interests: 1.Production-related skills. (technical, social) 2. the skills of everyday life. Quotidian strategies. The argument of the book: the Chinese revolution was as much about the redistribution of skill, knowledge, and technical control as it was about the redistribution of land and political power. Context: rural-urban divide: Argument: this gap is caused in the distribution...(1回应)
2019-12-03 15:145人喜欢
The author's interests:
1.Production-related skills. (technical, social)
2. the skills of everyday life. Quotidian strategies.
The argument of the book: the Chinese revolution was as much about the redistribution of skill, knowledge, and technical control as it was about the redistribution of land and political power.
Context: rural-urban divide:Argument: this gap is caused in the distribution of knowledge bt rural and urban China date to the beginning of the 20th c.
Chinese craft industries survived relatively intact into the mid of 20c. (2)
Focus: rural industries.
(my question: when looking at rural industries, how our understandings of the 20th china's economic dynamics change?)
"The countryside, by contrast, was the realm of farmers who produced food for the nation but could not or should not produce industrial goods to any significant degree. This view of an economy which distinct rural and urban sectors was inaccurate as a description of Chinese realities, but it was a powerful prescription for change. " 3
James Scott, "state simplification".-> in China, sector-making.
A model of rural people (5) "a culturally distinct and alien 'other', passive, helpless, unenlightened.."
The illusional link between a farmer and the land. (6)
?? "land in itself has value only insofar as it can be made to yield products, a process that requires skill."
“social life in the countryside is centrally concerned with the production and reproduction of economically useful skill, because economic activity is impossible without skill. ”
Skill and Organization:
Francois Sigaut: all social organization is at least partially about the production of skill.
How seeing skill reproduction as a central function alter our understanding of social organization?
Kinship: "Kinship and technical competence overlap so much."7
looking at skills "helps us to see patterns of social organization that remain hidden as long as we think of ritual people as land-based peasants."
Paper: Production of symbol of China's literary and bureaucratic culture.
Peasant as self-sufficient cells in China:
Rural people were differently integrated into the body politic (10): self-sufficient cells, removed from the web of mutual dependency and exchange of which they had been part.
"each individual peasant stood in the same unspecific relationship to the whole: unconnected to people outside the village community, he or she faced only in two directions, down to the soil and up to the state. (11)
Deskilling:
Harry Braverman: the inexorable "degradation of work" under capitalism.
critiques: 1. skill is constructed by powerful groups to exclude competitiors.
2. skill is constantly reproduced in the labor process.
Scottian: the dispossession of subaltern groups is the result of the pursuit of a modern vision of a world liberated from material want. 12
Focus of the book: a process of state-led skill expropriation began in 1920s.
*The nature of skill:
real or discursively constructed?
physically embodied or socially embedded? (14)
Two bodies of literature:
1) phenomenological philosophy (skill is central to the human condition)
2) cognitive science research. Scaffolding. 15
Skill is located at the interface between the person and his/her surroundings. 16
It is distributed across a field of relations.-> explain why the state never succeeded in transplanting Jiajiang papermaking skills to places outside. 16
Skill as a historical category:
"skill constitute a sort of meeting ground between big historical processes…and the concrete experience of everyday life." 17
Organization of the book:
Chapter1: papermaking technology, division of labor, the developmental cycle of household workshops, the transmission of the skills.
2: markets and intermediate organizations.
3: the position of papermaking in the late Qing and Republican China.
4,5: Shiyan village during land revolution and collectivization. ( a gradual deskilling of papermakers with the increasing state control)
6: Great LF and the subsequent famine.(black market trades)
7,8: post-Mao. Revival of the industry and technological revolution, struggles of the small household workshops.
9: reconnect the social tissue and to repair the structures.
The author's interests: 1.Production-related skills. (technical, social) 2. the skills of everyday life. Quotidian strategies. The argument of the book: the Chinese revolution was as much about the redistribution of skill, knowledge, and technical control as it was about the redistribution of land and political power. Context: rural-urban divide: Argument: this gap is caused in the distribution...(1回应)
2019-12-03 15:145人喜欢
The author's interests:
1.Production-related skills. (technical, social)
2. the skills of everyday life. Quotidian strategies.
The argument of the book: the Chinese revolution was as much about the redistribution of skill, knowledge, and technical control as it was about the redistribution of land and political power.
Context: rural-urban divide:Argument: this gap is caused in the distribution of knowledge bt rural and urban China date to the beginning of the 20th c.
Chinese craft industries survived relatively intact into the mid of 20c. (2)
Focus: rural industries.
(my question: when looking at rural industries, how our understandings of the 20th china's economic dynamics change?)
"The countryside, by contrast, was the realm of farmers who produced food for the nation but could not or should not produce industrial goods to any significant degree. This view of an economy which distinct rural and urban sectors was inaccurate as a description of Chinese realities, but it was a powerful prescription for change. " 3
James Scott, "state simplification".-> in China, sector-making.
A model of rural people (5) "a culturally distinct and alien 'other', passive, helpless, unenlightened.."
The illusional link between a farmer and the land. (6)
?? "land in itself has value only insofar as it can be made to yield products, a process that requires skill."
“social life in the countryside is centrally concerned with the production and reproduction of economically useful skill, because economic activity is impossible without skill. ”
Skill and Organization:
Francois Sigaut: all social organization is at least partially about the production of skill.
How seeing skill reproduction as a central function alter our understanding of social organization?
Kinship: "Kinship and technical competence overlap so much."7
looking at skills "helps us to see patterns of social organization that remain hidden as long as we think of ritual people as land-based peasants."
Paper: Production of symbol of China's literary and bureaucratic culture.
Peasant as self-sufficient cells in China:
Rural people were differently integrated into the body politic (10): self-sufficient cells, removed from the web of mutual dependency and exchange of which they had been part.
"each individual peasant stood in the same unspecific relationship to the whole: unconnected to people outside the village community, he or she faced only in two directions, down to the soil and up to the state. (11)
Deskilling:
Harry Braverman: the inexorable "degradation of work" under capitalism.
critiques: 1. skill is constructed by powerful groups to exclude competitiors.
2. skill is constantly reproduced in the labor process.
Scottian: the dispossession of subaltern groups is the result of the pursuit of a modern vision of a world liberated from material want. 12
Focus of the book: a process of state-led skill expropriation began in 1920s.
*The nature of skill:
real or discursively constructed?
physically embodied or socially embedded? (14)
Two bodies of literature:
1) phenomenological philosophy (skill is central to the human condition)
2) cognitive science research. Scaffolding. 15
Skill is located at the interface between the person and his/her surroundings. 16
It is distributed across a field of relations.-> explain why the state never succeeded in transplanting Jiajiang papermaking skills to places outside. 16
Skill as a historical category:
"skill constitute a sort of meeting ground between big historical processes…and the concrete experience of everyday life." 17
Organization of the book:
Chapter1: papermaking technology, division of labor, the developmental cycle of household workshops, the transmission of the skills.
2: markets and intermediate organizations.
3: the position of papermaking in the late Qing and Republican China.
4,5: Shiyan village during land revolution and collectivization. ( a gradual deskilling of papermakers with the increasing state control)
6: Great LF and the subsequent famine.(black market trades)
7,8: post-Mao. Revival of the industry and technological revolution, struggles of the small household workshops.
9: reconnect the social tissue and to repair the structures.
0 有用 廖芜 2016-01-25
DOROTHY KO, VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE学期第一本阅读,关于SKILL的定义和解读很有益处,后面几章读来稍微有些找不到头绪。但是看到其中对于女性工作的重视就觉得很对胃口。
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这本书不应该归结为技术史,而是技艺史,或者更确切的说,是技艺的社会史。里面描写了近代乡土中国的另一面,那些没有成为农民的乡村人。我觉得用任何sts的概念或理论来分析这本书都是有些不恰当的。在这本书里,能见到历史研究里少见的小人物的故事和叙事的温情。我希望有生之年自己也可以写出这样一本书。
0 有用 Donald 2014-10-14
稍微有点虎头蛇尾,不过民国那几章与结论都写的蛮好的。
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最近重读了好一些资格考时读过或应该读过的书,感觉那个时候侧重于一本书整体上的贡献,在研究脉络中的位置,反而错过了许多精彩的细节……
1 有用 浣熊N号 2019-09-30
变迁类上乘作品,传统VS现代经典命题,机器化大生产和手工业并非替代关系,但前者一定是后者的敌人。
0 有用 c2c3c50 2020-11-06
这本书不应该归结为技术史,而是技艺史,或者更确切的说,是技艺的社会史。里面描写了近代乡土中国的另一面,那些没有成为农民的乡村人。我觉得用任何sts的概念或理论来分析这本书都是有些不恰当的。在这本书里,能见到历史研究里少见的小人物的故事和叙事的温情。我希望有生之年自己也可以写出这样一本书。
0 有用 在野武将 2020-06-28
最近重读了好一些资格考时读过或应该读过的书,感觉那个时候侧重于一本书整体上的贡献,在研究脉络中的位置,反而错过了许多精彩的细节……
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0 有用 MamboSiku 2019-12-19
He describes the elaborate social infrastructure that supported paper making in Jiajiang and traces the impact that repeated government efforts to restructure the countryside and modernize the paper i... He describes the elaborate social infrastructure that supported paper making in Jiajiang and traces the impact that repeated government efforts to restructure the countryside and modernize the paper industry had on the social infrastructure and the organization of papermaking in Jiajiang. 演讲见 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w98_XW0WFuo (展开)
1 有用 浣熊N号 2019-09-30
变迁类上乘作品,传统VS现代经典命题,机器化大生产和手工业并非替代关系,但前者一定是后者的敌人。