《以竹为生》内容简介

　　本书勾勒了一个四川农村手工技艺从业者社区20世纪的社会变迁史。该村落地处成都与乐山之间的夹江县。传统上，当地居民利用当地自然产出的毛竹为原料从事手工造纸谋生，并围绕这一核心技能形成特定的亲属关系网络和社区组织形式。而“技能”这一话题以两种互相关联的线索贯穿全书：技术性的，或社会性的。作者试图通过聚焦一种技能劳作的相关细节，更加透彻地了解乡村民众的生活世界。

　　进入20世纪以后，夹江的手工造纸技术面临着一系列重大冲击，改朝换代、战争、革命、集体化、现代化的理念和建设实践、改革开放和市场化，这些发生在“城乡鸿沟”宏观背景下的每一项重大社会变革都促使造纸人在技术层面和社会层面上重新定义身份认同。本书追踪了知识分配在一个世纪内的变迁，这导致了对技能的控制权大量地从农村转向城市，从初级生产者转向管理精英，从女人转向男人。在作者看来，造纸技能是一种资源，是分配和争夺的对象。作者从这一独特的角度出发，从一项传统技艺个案入手来介入对大问题的思考：革命、建国以及市场化等现代化进程如何改变着20世纪的中国农村。

　　作者简介

　　艾约博（JacobEyferth，1962－），现担任美国芝加哥大学历史系、东亚语言文明系中国近现代史专业副教授。2000年在莱顿大学获得博士学位，在牛津、哈佛和罗格斯大学从事博士后研究。主要研究领域为20世纪中国农村社会史，以及关于工作、技术、性别和日常生活的历史。

"Living on Bamboo" content introduction

This book Outlines the 20th century social history of a community of rural artisans in Sichuan. The village is located in Jiajiang County between Chengdu and Leshan. Traditionally, local residents have made a living by making paper by hand, using the natural native bamboo as raw material, and have formed specific kinship networks and forms of community organization around this core skill. The topic of "skills" runs through the book in two interrelated threads: technical and social. The author attempts to gain a more thorough understanding of the living world of rural people by focusing on the relevant details of a kind of skilled labor.

After entering the 20th century, Jiajiang's handmade papermaking technology faced a series of major impacts, such as dynasty change, war, revolution, collectivization, the concept and construction practice of modernization, reform and opening up, and marketization. Each of these major social changes under the macro background of "urban-rural divide" prompted papermakers to redefine their identity at the technical and social levels. The book traces the shift in the distribution of knowledge over the course of a century, which led to a massive shift in control of skills from rural to urban, from primary producers to managerial elites, and from women to men. In the author's view, papermaking skill is a resource that is to be distributed and fought for. From this unique point of view, the author begins with a case study of traditional skills to intervene in thinking about the big question: how the modernization process of revolution, nation-building, and marketization changed rural China in the 20th century.

About the author

JacobEyferth (1962-) is an associate professor of modern Chinese history in the Department of History and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD from Leiden University in 2000 and has done postdoctoral research at Oxford, Harvard and Rutgers universities. His research interests include the social history of rural China in the 20th century, as well as the history of work, technology, gender, and everyday life. Editor HowChinaWorks: PerspectivesontheTwentieth - CenturyIndustrialWorkplace (Routledge, 2006). Plans to publish HiddenTransfers: HowRuralWomen 'sReproductiveWorkPaidForIndustrializationinMao' sChina