• Chinese Craftsmen (English Edition): 30+ Real Stories of the People Keeping China‘s Traditional Crafts Alive
  • Chinese Craftsmen (English Edition): 30+ Real Stories of the People Keeping China‘s Traditional Crafts Alive
  • Chinese Craftsmen (English Edition): 30+ Real Stories of the People Keeping China‘s Traditional Crafts Alive
  • Chinese Craftsmen (English Edition): 30+ Real Stories of the People Keeping China‘s Traditional Crafts Alive
  • Chinese Craftsmen (English Edition): 30+ Real Stories of the People Keeping China‘s Traditional Crafts Alive
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Chinese Craftsmen (English Edition): 30+ Real Stories of the People Keeping China‘s Traditional Crafts Alive

Chinese Craftsmen (English Edition): 30+ Real Stories of the People Keeping China‘s Traditional Crafts Alive

Ceramic Artists, Silversmiths, Paper-Cut Makers, Wood Sculptors, Tofu Craftsmen and Fireworks Makers — A Four-Year Journey Through 30+ Workshops, Recording Their Lives, Hopes and Struggles
This is not a how-to book about craft techniques, and it is not a coffee-table album of finished objects. It is a book about people—over 30 of them—who make ceramics, silver jewellery, paper-cuts, wood sculptures, tofu, fireworks, and dozens of other things by hand in China today. The author, a photographer, spent four years visiting their workshops, watching them work, and asking them about their lives. You see the long hours, the uncertain income, the pride in a finished piece, and the fear that the craft might not survive. The photographs are close and honest, and the text lets the craftsmen speak for themselves. If you want to understand what it actually means to keep a traditional craft alive today—rather than learn a technique or read an academic study of folk art—this is it.
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About the Book

In an age of mass production, what does it mean to make something by hand?

Chinese Craftsmen is a deeply human documentary of a disappearing world. Over the course of four years, photographer and author Bai Ying traveled across China to find the last generation of traditional artisans—and to witness their work firsthand -2-3.

Through more than 200 pages of photographs and interviews, you’ll meet weavers, carvers, potters, and metalworkers who have devoted their lives to crafts passed down through centuries. Each portrait goes beyond technique, revealing the daily realities of these artisans: their hopes, their struggles, their pride in work done well, and their anxieties about a future where few young people are willing to carry on the tradition -2.

This is not a romanticized look at “ancient crafts.” It is an honest, often moving account of what it takes to keep a handmade tradition alive in a country racing toward modernization—and what we lose when those traditions fade.

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