FOUR years ago, the publication of a book created a great sensation in Western media. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World written by the Oxford University professor of history Peter Frankopan quickly topped bes...FOUR years ago, the publication of a book created a great sensation in Western media. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World written by the Oxford University professor of history Peter Frankopan quickly topped bestseller lists in the English world after its launching.展开更多
Terms of sustainable and sustainability have been employed in various sectors and fields since around 1990. To make a society sustainable needs to find ways of having sustainable local activities. The ways may be to f...Terms of sustainable and sustainability have been employed in various sectors and fields since around 1990. To make a society sustainable needs to find ways of having sustainable local activities. The ways may be to find and revitalize local resources, or to support new life styles by accepting outsider's new ideas. I see those ways often taken from a perspective that the ways require a structure or institutional organization. To explore in-between ways, it would be better to have an alternative perspective and useful to learn from Southeast Asian cases of managing diversity while accepting new ways (cf. Reid, 2015). In this essay, I focus on a sustainable craft making of a men's hat kopiah meuketob in Aceh, Sumatra, which is traditional item for marriage but has been used in various imaginative ways and has been shaping a regional "craft-scape." I examine such ways and various facets of making the hat and conclude that a lesson from the case for making things sustainable is equal and flexible ways of participating in production processes.展开更多
The export of China’s arts and crafts has a long history. Its origins can be traced back to the ancient silk road. Arts and crafts are the epitome of China’s splendid national culture of several thousand years, play...The export of China’s arts and crafts has a long history. Its origins can be traced back to the ancient silk road. Arts and crafts are the epitome of China’s splendid national culture of several thousand years, playing an important part in the economic, trade and cultural exchanges between China and the rest of the world. China’s arts and crafts represented by paintings, embroidery,cloisonn(?) and ceramics are Well known all over the world. China is one of the largest producers and exporters of paintings,展开更多
文摘FOUR years ago, the publication of a book created a great sensation in Western media. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World written by the Oxford University professor of history Peter Frankopan quickly topped bestseller lists in the English world after its launching.
文摘Terms of sustainable and sustainability have been employed in various sectors and fields since around 1990. To make a society sustainable needs to find ways of having sustainable local activities. The ways may be to find and revitalize local resources, or to support new life styles by accepting outsider's new ideas. I see those ways often taken from a perspective that the ways require a structure or institutional organization. To explore in-between ways, it would be better to have an alternative perspective and useful to learn from Southeast Asian cases of managing diversity while accepting new ways (cf. Reid, 2015). In this essay, I focus on a sustainable craft making of a men's hat kopiah meuketob in Aceh, Sumatra, which is traditional item for marriage but has been used in various imaginative ways and has been shaping a regional "craft-scape." I examine such ways and various facets of making the hat and conclude that a lesson from the case for making things sustainable is equal and flexible ways of participating in production processes.
文摘The export of China’s arts and crafts has a long history. Its origins can be traced back to the ancient silk road. Arts and crafts are the epitome of China’s splendid national culture of several thousand years, playing an important part in the economic, trade and cultural exchanges between China and the rest of the world. China’s arts and crafts represented by paintings, embroidery,cloisonn(?) and ceramics are Well known all over the world. China is one of the largest producers and exporters of paintings,