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Industrialisation and Handicraft Cloth: The Jiangsu Peasant Economy in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2009

MA JUNYA  and
TIM WRIGHT
MA JUNYA
Affiliation:
Center for the History of Republican China, Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities & Social Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China Email: ma318@nju.edu.cn
TIM WRIGHT
Affiliation:
White Rose East Asia Centre, School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Email: T.Wright@Sheffield.ac.uk
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Abstract

This paper analyses the trajectories of handicraft cloth production in three major sub-regions of Jiangsu Province in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In contrast to traditional focus on the bankruptcy of rural handicrafts in the face of competition from the modern industry, it argues that the fate of handicrafts depended on the specific characteristics of each sub-regional economy. Thus in Song-Tai, handicraft weaving declined as labour was drawn off into modern industry. In Tong-Hai the availability of machine-spun yarn in the market enabled the development of a commercialised handicraft weaving sector. Finally, in Xu-Huai-Hai machine-spun yarn enabled the inhabitants to substitute their own subsistence handicraft production for cloth purchased from elsewhere.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 44 , Issue 6 , November 2010 , pp. 1337 - 1372
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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