Craftworks of China

Craftworks of China
Author: Song Tan
Publisher: 五洲传播出版社
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9787508510927

It is an enjoyable thing for one to travel around China and appreciate the long history and profound culture contained in the craftworks. From the gorgeous Tuiguang lacquer in Shanxi to the beautiful fish-skin clothes and adornments of Hezhen ethnic group, from the elegant tricolor pottery of Henan to the charming indigo print cloth of Zhejiang, from the exquisite embroidery of Sichuan to the perfumed bags of GansuLet's start out journey!

China's Crafts

China's Crafts
Author: Roberta Helmer Stalberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2022-05-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 100058271X

This book, first published in 1981, provides a comprehensive appraisal of China’s crafts. Its historical approach and numerous illustrations not only reveal the ancient origins of many of China’s arts, but also offer the means for evaluating modern crafts in light of past achievements.

Heritage Futures

Heritage Futures
Author: Rodney Harrison
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2020-07-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1787356000

Preservation of natural and cultural heritage is often said to be something that is done for the future, or on behalf of future generations, but the precise relationship of such practices to the future is rarely reflected upon. Heritage Futures draws on research undertaken over four years by an interdisciplinary, international team of 16 researchers and more than 25 partner organisations to explore the role of heritage and heritage-like practices in building future worlds. Engaging broad themes such as diversity, transformation, profusion and uncertainty, Heritage Futures aims to understand how a range of conservation and preservation practices across a number of countries assemble and resource different kinds of futures, and the possibilities that emerge from such collaborative research for alternative approaches to heritage in the Anthropocene. Case studies include the cryopreservation of endangered DNA in frozen zoos, nuclear waste management, seed biobanking, landscape rewilding, social history collecting, space messaging, endangered language documentation, built and natural heritage management, domestic keeping and discarding practices, and world heritage site management.

Craft in America

Craft in America
Author: Jo Lauria
Publisher: Potter Style
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2007
Genre: Decorative arts
ISBN: 0307346471

Illustrated with 200 stunning photographs and encompassing objects from furniture and ceramics to jewelry and metal, this definitive work from Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton showcases some of the greatest pieces of American crafts of the last two centuries. Potter Craft

Craftwork

Craftwork
Author: W. V. Fitz-Simon
Publisher: Dedo Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Inadequate training, arcane rules, and your mother in the guest bedroom criticizing your every spell and potion. There must be easier ways to save the world! Gosha Armitage will never be the witch her mother wants her to be, but that won’t stop her from getting the job done. When a strange new drug hits the streets of Cheyne Heath causing madness and death, the newly-minted witch must challenge the centuries-long traditions of witchcraft and the devious machinations of the sorcerous elite to foil an occult power struggle playing out across the neighborhood she calls home. Will Gosha find her own path through the twisting politics of witchcraft and sorcery to save Cheyne Heath from being consumed by the forces of Shadow? Craftwork is the second installment in The Witch of Cheyne Heath supernatural mystery series from author W. V. Fitz-Simon. If you like 80s New Wave synthpop, treacherous dreamscapes, and outspoken witches with strong opinions, you’ll love this arch and cozy spellpunk adventure. Buy Craftwork and step into the glamorous, enigmatic, dangerous world of Cheyne Heath TODAY!

Renewable Resources for Surface Coatings, Inks and Adhesives

Renewable Resources for Surface Coatings, Inks and Adhesives
Author: Rainer Höfer
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Total Pages: 884
Release: 2022-11-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1788013026

Providing a detailed survey of renewable raw materials for paints, inks and glues, this book is ideal for researchers and practitioners working in the areas of green chemistry, industrial chemistry and sustainability. Beginning with a brief history of coatings and adhesives, this book walks the reader through the chemistry, properties, sourcing and processing of a number of renewable raw materials, including lipids, natural resins, proteins, and carbohydrates. Their use in a range of recent developments and concepts from material protection, to decorative paints and coatings, adhesives and sealants is highlighted, providing the reader with a complete and modern foundation to the field.

State and Crafts in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)

State and Crafts in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
Author: Christine Moll-Murata
Publisher: Social Histories of Work in As
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789462986657

This book, full of quantitative evidence and limited-circulation archives, details manufacturing and the beginnings of industrialisation in China from 1644 to 1911. It thoroughly examines the interior organisation of public craft production and the complementary activities of the private sector. It offers detailed knowledge of shipbuilding and printing. Moreover, it contributes to the research of labour history and the rise of capitalism in China through its examination of living conditions, working conditions, and wages.

Craftwork as Problem Solving

Craftwork as Problem Solving
Author: Trevor H.J. Marchand
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134802293

This volume brings together a cross-disciplinary group of anthropologists, researchers of craft, and designer-makers to enumerate and explore the diversity and complexity of problem-solving tactics and strategies employed by craftspeople, together with the key social, cultural, and environmental factors that give rise to particular ways of problem solving. Presenting rich, textured ethnographic studies of craftspeople at work around the world, Craftwork as Problem Solving examines the intelligent practices involved in solving a variety of problems and the ways in which these are perceived and evaluated both by makers and creators themselves, and by the societies in which they work. With attention to local factors such as training regimes and formal education, access to tools, socialisation and cultural understanding, budgetary constraints and market demands, changing technologies and materials, and political and economic regimes, this book sheds fresh light on the multifarious forms of intelligence involved in design and making, inventing and manufacturing, and cultivating and producing. As such, it will appeal to scholars of anthropology, sociology, and cultural geography, as well as to craftspeople with interests in creativity, skilful practice, perception and ethnography.

Cultural Advantage for China. Tale of Six Cities

Cultural Advantage for China. Tale of Six Cities
Author: Fu Yuhua
Publisher: Infinite Study
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1599730685

Nowadays, plenty of factories from Europe and other developed countries have been relocated to this country, considering its tremendous economic scale and rapid growth rate during the past three decades.But most of what happens inside the China nowadays is deeply hidden from the outside world (¿the foreigners¿ as China people would call). This fact is partly because most reports on China were written by the so-called fly-high experts who are busy completing their reports despite a busy schedule. Very few books or reports were written by people inside, or at least ¿foreigners¿ who spent a few years in China. Therefore in this book, we took a different approach, by inviting local scientists and other writers to describe what happens surround them.It is the purpose of this book to bring these cultural advantages into more focus, in order to bring into light some 'human¿ aspects of the country, and how these can be integrated into the broader context of economics development. At the end of the day, their achievements cannot be measured by economic progress alone, but also how the people can have the proper sense of meaning (i.e. 'feel¿ at home) in their own homeland, instead of being just another 'bolt¿ in the obsolete industrial engine of economics. As shown in history that China/Eastern cultures can shed some light into modern science (cf. Fritjof Capra etc.), it is of our belief that both cultures can learn from each other, rather than suppressing the Eastern cultures under the spell of modernization.As with other books on development economics, it is beyond the objective of this book to give the final word. We would rather see the purpose of this book is to invite further dialogue over a long-time issue on how the modernization can be given a more humanized interpretation. This perhaps will include rethinking on the meaning of modernization and development themselves, beyond classical debates between inward-outward looking development programs.

Chinatown Gun

Chinatown Gun
Author: Kun Lee
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2013-01-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1479766933

This novel relates stories of new Chinese immigrants living in New York, United States. After China adopted the policy of reform and opened up to the outside world in the early 1980s, large numbers of Chinese went abroad and settled in the United States, a paradise they had dreamed of to go to. Chinatown was chosen by most of these new immigrants as their settlement, where they live and work. Chinatown is a place in the high and low were mixed together. The underworld stops at no evil nothing. They carry on extortions and organize the criminal activity of illegal immigration and brutal and bloody fights and killings between factions. The novel tells several new immigrant families, each of them has different experience in China’s mainland; after coming to U.S.A., in order to realize that “American Dream”, many of them worked hard day and night, full of entrepreneurial spirit and some started their own business from scratch. They want to train their children to become a useful person, enduring all kinds of hardships, place hopes on them. But in fact, some children did not take their study seriously, and some even went so far as to sink into degradation or even crimes. Thus, “the American dream” of some new immigrants shattered into pieces. A family of Wang Ming’s is an example among them. Father’s soul is hurt. Son’s body is injured, so they have to get back to the hometown to cure their suffering. This novel has stories that are vividly depicted, intricately plotted, and sometimes breathtaking.