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UNINA9910637721803321 |
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Chinese handicrafts / / Hua Jueming, Li Jinsong, Wang Lianhai, editors ; compiled by Hua Jueming [and five others] |
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Singapore : , : Elephant Press Co., Ltd : , : Springer, , [2022] |
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©2022 |
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1 online resource (1185 pages) |
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Handicraft |
Handicraft - China |
Handicraft - China - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Intro -- Preface: Re-introducing Handicrafts -- Translators' Preface to "Chinese Handicrafts" -- Contents -- 1 Making Tools and Devices -- 1.1 Farm Tools, Hand Tools, and Simple Devices -- 1.1.1 Farm Tools -- 1.1.2 Hand Tools -- 1.1.3 Simple Devices -- 1.2 Devices -- 1.2.1 Cutting and Processing Devices -- 1.2.2 Agricultural Devices -- 1.2.3 Hydraulic Devices -- 1.2.4 Wind Devices -- 1.2.5 Chinese Bellows -- 1.2.6 Well Drilling -- 1.3 Transportation -- 1.3.1 Land Vehicles -- 1.3.2 Water Vehicles -- 1.4 Instruments and Meters -- 1.4.1 Li-Recording Drum Carriage -- 1.4.2 Water Clock -- 1.4.3 Houfeng Seismograph -- 1.4.4 Astronomical Instruments -- 1.4.5 Vernier Caliper -- 1.4.6 Compass and Luopan -- 1.5 Musical Instruments -- 1.5.1 Guqin (the Chinese Zither) -- 1.5.2 Sheng-Guan Musical Instruments Made at the Beijing Hong Yin Zhai Workshop -- 1.5.3 National Musical Instruments of Suzhou -- 1.5.4 The Flute and Xiao Made in Yuping -- 1.5.5 Lusheng of the Miao People -- 1.5.6 Morin Khuur -- 1.6 Household and Folk Utensils -- 1.6.1 Lock -- 1.6.2 Steelyard -- 1.6.3 Umbrella -- 1.6.4 Fans -- 1.6.5 Flying Car -- 1.6.6 Kongming Lantern -- 1.6.7 Incense Burner in the Quilt -- 1.6.8 Trotting Horse Lantern -- 2 Agricultural and Mineral Processing -- 2.1 Production of Table Salt -- 2.1.1 Production of Well Salt in Tibet -- 2.1.2 Production Process of Well Salt in Nuodeng Well -- 2.1.3 Mining |
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and Production of Shenhai Well Salt -- 2.1.4 Production of Sea Salt in Xiangshan -- 2.2 Brewing Techniques -- 2.2.1 Liquor Brewing -- 2.2.2 Vinegar Brewing -- 2.2.3 Paste, Soy Sauce and Chinese Douchi -- 2.3 Tea-Making Technique -- 2.3.1 Chinese Tea -- 2.3.2 Traditional Tea-Making Technology -- 2.4 Oil Extraction, Cooking, and Grinding -- 2.4.1 Ancient Oil-Making Technology -- 2.4.2 Modern Oil Pressing Technology -- 2.5 Sugar Production -- 2.5.1 Early Sugar Stuff. |
2.5.2 Maltose: An Early Artificial Sugar -- 2.5.3 Sucrose -- 2.5.4 Sugar Beet -- 2.6 Leather Processing Technology -- 2.7 Incense-Making Technology -- 2.7.1 Making Skills of Beijing's Traditional Medicinal Incense -- 2.7.2 The Skill of "Rolling Incense" in Dongguang Village, long'an, Guizhou Province -- 2.7.3 Tibetan Incense-Making Skills -- 2.8 Production of Gunpowder, Firearms, and Fireworks -- 3 Construction -- 3.1 Characteristics of Chinese Construction -- 3.1.1 Grid Patterns in Urban Planning -- 3.1.2 Courtyards -- 3.1.3 Architecture Featured in Timber Frame -- 3.1.4 Bucket Arches -- 3.1.5 Architecture Reflecting Hierarchy -- 3.1.6 Construction Planning System -- 3.1.7 Fengshui -- 3.2 Construction and Traditional Chinese Architecture -- 3.2.1 Urban Planning and Construction -- 3.2.2 Residential Buildings -- 3.2.3 Palace Architecture -- 3.2.4 Religious Buildings -- 3.2.5 Sacrificial Architecture -- 3.2.6 Landscape Architecture -- 3.2.7 Bridges -- 3.3 The Craft of Chinese Construction -- 3.3.1 Timber Frame Architecture and Its Construction -- 3.3.2 Tile Making -- 3.3.3 Stone Masonry -- 3.3.4 Earthen Architecture -- 3.3.5 Decoration on Buildings -- 4 Spinning, Dyeing, and Embroidering -- 4.1 History of Weaving, Dyeing, and Embroidery -- 4.1.1 Pre-Qin Period -- 4.1.2 Han-Tang Period -- 4.1.3 Song and Yuan Dynasties -- 4.1.4 Ming and Qing Dynasties -- 4.2 Raw Textile Materials and Technology -- 4.2.1 Silk-Weaving Technology -- 4.2.2 Primary Processing of Cotton, Hemp and Wool Fibers -- 4.3 Dyeing and Finishing Techniques and Varieties -- 4.3.1 Dyeing -- 4.3.2 Xie Dyeing -- 4.3.3 Relief Printing -- 4.3.4 Products of Dyeing and Finishing -- 4.4 Weave and Variety of Fabric -- 4.4.1 Fabric Weave -- 4.4.2 Variety of Woven Fabric -- 4.5 Embroidery Techniques and Varieties -- 4.5.1 Preparation Before Embroidery -- 4.5.2 Stitches. |
4.5.3 Varieties of Embroidery -- 4.6 Social and Cultural Attributes of Weaving, Dyeing, and Embroidery -- 4.6.1 Social Division of Labor Between Men and Women -- 4.6.2 Twelve Symbols of Sovereignty -- 4.6.3 Characteristics of Clothing Fashion in Different Times -- 4.6.4 Production and Living Customs -- 4.6.5 Weaving, Dyeing, and Embroidery in Words and Literature -- 4.7 Appendix: The Weaving, Dyeing, and Embroidery Skills Listed in Lists of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage -- 5 Ceramics -- 5.1 Development -- 5.2 Manufacturing Skills -- 5.2.1 Raw Material Selection and Preparation -- 5.2.2 Shaping Methods -- 5.2.3 Decoration Skills -- 5.2.4 Firing Methods and Facilities -- 5.3 Ceramics Firing -- 5.3.1 Folk Ceramics -- 5.3.2 Low-Temperature Lead-Glazed Ceramics -- 5.3.3 Purple Clay Pottery (Zisha) -- 5.3.4 Shiwan Pottery Molding -- 5.4 Porcelain Firing -- 5.4.1 Celadon Wares -- 5.4.2 Black Glaze Porcelain -- 5.4.3 White Porcelain -- 5.4.4 Jingdezhen Porcelain -- 5.4.5 Dehua Porcelain Molding -- 5.5 The Ceramics Industry's Division of Labor, Guild Organizations, and Customs -- 6 Metallurgy and Metalworking -- 6.1 The Bronze Age -- 6.1.1 The Bronze Smelting and Casting Industry in the Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynasties -- 6.1.2 Copper Mining and Smelting Technology -- 6.1.3 Preparation of Bronze Alloys -- 6.1.4 Clay-Mold Casting -- 6.1.5 New Metalworking Techniques -- 6.1.6 Influence of Bronze Smelting and Casting on Ancient Technical Concepts and Social Cognition -- 6.2 Metal Civilization in the Iron Age |
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-- 6.2.1 Metal Handicraft Industry in the Iron Age -- 6.2.2 Pig Iron Smelting and Casting -- 6.2.3 Steel Making -- 6.2.4 Smelting and Alloy Preparation of Non-ferrous Metals -- 6.2.5 Metal Processing Technology -- 6.3 Traditional Precious Metal Technology -- 6.3.1 Zhaoyuan Metallurgy -- 6.3.2 Zinc Smelting in Hezhang. |
6.3.3 The Stone-Mold Casting Plowshare in Qujing -- 6.3.4 The Pig Iron Smelting and Casting Techniques in Yangcheng -- 6.3.5 Wrought Iron -- 6.3.6 Lost-Wax Casting -- 6.3.7 Gongs Forging in Changzi -- 6.3.8 Gold Foil Making -- 6.3.9 Mud-Mold and Stone-Mold Casting -- 6.3.10 Collecting-and-Throwing (Shoupaohuo) Work and Tibetan Copper Forging Technology -- 6.3.11 Gold, Silver, and Fine Gold Technology -- 6.3.12 Miao Silver Ornaments -- 6.4 Conclusion: Present and Past of Traditional Metal Technology -- 7 Sculpture -- 7.1 History -- 7.2 Sculpting Techniques -- 7.2.1 Carving Techniques -- 7.2.2 Modeling Techniques -- 7.3 Types of Sculptures -- 7.3.1 Carving -- 7.3.2 Modeling -- 8 Weaving and Tying -- 8.1 The History of Weaving -- 8.2 Bamboo Weaving -- 8.2.1 Varieties of Bamboo Weaving -- 8.2.2 The Craft of Bamboo Weaving -- 8.3 Straw Weaving -- 8.3.1 Cattail Weaving -- 8.3.2 Reed Weaving -- 8.3.3 Wheat Straw Weaving -- 8.3.4 Palm Fibre Weaving -- 8.3.5 Corn Husk Weaving -- 8.4 Rattan and Wicker Weaving -- 8.4.1 Rattan Weaving -- 8.4.2 Wicker Weaving -- 8.5 The History of Tying -- 8.5.1 Lanterns -- 8.5.2 Kites -- 8.5.3 Paper Models -- 8.6 Lanterns -- 8.6.1 Varieties of Lanterns -- 8.6.2 The Craft of Making Lanterns -- 8.7 Kites -- 8.7.1 Types of Kites -- 8.7.2 How to Build a Kite -- 8.7.3 The Principle of Flying a Kite -- 8.8 Paper Models -- 8.8.1 Categories of Paper Models -- 8.8.2 The Making of Paper Models -- 9 Lacquering -- 9.1 The History of Lacquering -- 9.2 Materials and Tools -- 9.2.1 Natural Lacquer -- 9.2.2 Auxiliary Materials -- 9.2.3 Tools -- 9.3 Techniques -- 9.3.1 Body Techniques -- 9.3.2 Decorative Techniques -- 9.4 Types of Lacquerware and Its Production -- 9.4.1 Beijing Engraved Lacquer and Gold Lacquer Inlay -- 9.4.2 Yangzhou's Mother-of-Pearl Inlay Milling and Engraved Lacquer with Jade -- 9.4.3 Weifang's Silver-Embedded Lacquerware. |
9.4.4 Pingyao Polished Lacquer and Xinjiang Engraved Three-Color Lacquer -- 9.4.5 Fuzhou Bodiless Lacquerware -- 9.4.6 Tiantai Dry Ramee-Lacquer -- 9.4.7 Chengdu Lacquerware (Luqi) -- 9.4.8 Wenzhou's Ou Mold -- 9.4.9 Yi Lacquer -- 9.4.10 Tianshui's Carved and Filled Lacquer -- 9.4.11 Dafang's Leather Base Lacquerwares -- 9.4.12 Taiwan Lacquerwares -- 9.5 Lacquer Painting -- 9.6 The Beauty of Lacquering and the Way of Lacquering -- 9.6.1 The Beauty of Lacquering -- 9.6.2 The Way of Lacquering -- 10 Furniture Making -- 10.1 Evolution -- 10.2 Categories and Styles -- 10.2.1 Chairs and Stools -- 10.2.2 Beds -- 10.2.3 Table and An -- 10.2.4 Box and Cabinet -- 10.2.5 Other Categories -- 10.3 Design and Production -- 10.3.1 Design -- 10.3.2 Tools and Equipment -- 10.3.3 Material Selection -- 10.3.4 Material Preparation -- 10.3.5 Component Preparation -- 10.3.6 Splicing and Assembly -- 10.3.7 Mortise and Tenon Structure -- 10.3.8 Decoration -- 10.3.9 Accessories -- 10.4 Ming-Style Furniture -- 10.5 Furniture Making in Suzhou, Beijing and Guangzhou -- 10.5.1 Furniture Making in Suzhou -- 10.5.2 Furniture Making in Beijing -- 10.5.3 Furniture Making in Guangzhou -- 10.6 Rules of the Furniture Manufacturing Industry and a Brief Introduction of Furniture Culture -- 11 Making Calligrapher's Tools -- 11.1 Paper -- 11.1.1 Definition of Paper and Mechanism of Papermaking -- 11.1.2 Origin and Development of Papermaking -- 11.1.3 Production of Hemp Paper -- 11.1.4 Production of Bark Paper -- 11.1.5 Production of Bamboo Paper -- 11.1.6 Production of Letter |
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Paper -- 11.1.7 Papermaking and Its Impact on Chinese Society and the World -- 11.2 Writing Brush -- 11.2.1 Evolution -- 11.2.2 Making Techniques -- 11.3 Ink Stick -- 11.3.1 Evolution -- 11.3.2 Preparation of Pine Smoke and Lampblack -- 11.3.3 Production Techniques of Huizhou Ink -- 11.4 Inkstone -- 11.4.1 Evolution. |
11.4.2 Making Techniques. |
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