Chinese rural handicrafts

Author: Gao Xing
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book is one of the first in China to conduct real-life interviews with individual artisans in daily life. The author records the living conditions and inheritance of crafts of over 20 rural artisans through vivid writing and simple photography. The author's attitude is neither exaggerated nor idealized. The focus of the author is on material life-related crafts, such as bread-making, winemaking, and traditional crafts like carpenters, blacksmiths, and stonemasons, who are on the verge of disappearing.