This volume looks at the production of Chinese wood furniture under the socio-economic conditions of the People's Republic of China. It is a continuation of research begun by the author in Hong Kong in the early 1970s among expatriate artisan furniture makers and woodcarvers from Dongyang.
The book represents a continuation of research begun by Cooper in Hong Kong in the early 1970s among expatriate artisan furniture makers and woodcarvers from Dongyang County, Zhejiang Province. He now sets out to investigate the fate of the same craft in the hands of the same folk under totally different socio-economic conditions in their native county in communist People's Republic of China.
