Having long studied expatriate Dongyang wood carvers in capitalist Hong Kong, Cooper (anthropology and Chinese studies, U. of Southern California) took the next step and in the late 1980s went to the county itself, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, to see how the same industry and craft operate under a different economic system. He describes the county, the woodcarving tradition and its changes, artisans in several specific towns and villages, and the factory and economic reform. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR