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.
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