When
thinking about Made in China the first image that comes to your mind is
the mass produced health threatening low quality cheap things sold everywhere
in the world.
But China, with five thousand years of history, is one of the
world's oldest civilizations, and this means that it must have a very rich and
diverse culture, which, as in any civilization, finds expression in art and
crafts.
Unfortunately, you most likely don't see those kinds of things on
the market, as traditional arts and crafts and their associated knowledge are
being threatened by globalization and replaced by mass produced less valuable
objects.
With this blog I want to show you that valuable and unique
handicraft products still exist in China, they are just very hard to find!
In each post I will introduce a traditional craft, telling the
story of artists and people behind it, and documenting my travels to remote
Chinese regions where the traditional heritage of art and crafts is still
preserved.
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