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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
Tai Wei Lim is assistant professor of the Department of Japanese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Summary
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.
