Tai Wei Lim

Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters examines how energy use in the ceramics-making industry has evolved as a result of technological advancements and changing social norms and ideas in environmental conservation. Three main research themes are highlighted. First, the book examines how the evolving use of energy fuels has impacted the developmental history of the ceramics-making industry, especially with regard to productive output. The second theme focuses on energy use by networks of specialists and technicians in ceramics-making artistic clusters and how ceramicist communities in the world organize themselves institutionally to maximize resource-sharing. Third, at a cognitive level, the volume studies changes in production and design, environmental thinking, energy use, and aesthetic trends among ceramicists and consumers. The four cities or towns of Arita, Hong Kong, Jingdezhen, and Yingge are the settings for this research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761864295
• Artikelnr.: 41505780

Autorenporträt

Tai Wei Lim is assistant professor of the Department of Japanese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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