Tai Wei Lim

Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters

A Comparative Study of Energy Use, Production/Environmental Ecology, and Kiln Development in Arita, Hong Kong, Jingdezhen, and Yingge

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how energy use has evolved with technological advancements and changing social norms and ideas in environmental conservation and productive output in the ceramics-making industry. The four cities or towns of Arita, Hong Kong, Jingdezhen, and Yingge are the settings for this research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9780761864288
• ISBN-10: 0761864288
• Artikelnr.: 41200297

Autorenporträt

Tai Wei Lim

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Japanese Trade Ceramics in the Premodern Global Trading Space
Chapter 2: Interpretations of Japanese Modernity: A Case Study of Japan's
Energy Transition in the Ceramics Industry
Chapter 3: Energy Transition in Creative Production: Narratives and
Fieldwork about Energy Use in the Ceramics-Making Industries of Hong Kong,
Japan, and China
Chapter 4: Blue and White Fired Clay in Everyday Lives: An Ecology of
Creative Production, Energy Use, and Aesthetics of Arita (With Comparative
References to Jingdezhen)
Chapter 5: Ideas about Resource Use and the Natural Environment in
Pottery-making: A Historical Comparative Case Study of Two Communities in
Hong Kong and Japan
Chapter 6: Post-Modernism and Pottery-Making: A Case Study of Issues of
Artistic Production, Environmental Awareness and Energy Use in Hong Kong
with Comparative References to China and Japan
Chapter 7: Negotiating the Narrative of the "Last Frontier": A Case Study
of a Fourth-Generation Hong Kong Potter and his Art as well as
Environmental and Ethical Consciousness through Non-Governmental
Initiatives in Myanmar (Burma)
Chapter 8: Shek Kip Mei's Artistic Green Village
Chapter 9: Fieldwork in Arita: The Ecology of the Town, its People, the
Natural Environment, and its Energy Use
Chapter 10: A History of Jingdezhen Kilns, Its Development, and Energy Use
(With Comparative References to Arita)
Chapter 11: Yingge - The Town, Its Developmental History, and Energy Use
Conclusion
Bibliography