Study On Modern Fuzhou Export Lacquer Ware(1900-1940)

This paper studies the historical facts that Fuzhou Lacquer ware has been exported prosperously for 40 years in the historical process of modernism,from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the eve of the founding of the people’s Republic of China.Under the modern cultural framework of tradition,innovation and integration,this paper presents the imagery of lacquer craftsmen and lacquer workshops in politics,market and arts and crafts under social culture,economic structure and ethics inheritance.At this stage,the research on the materialization of "regional" lacquer ware and social culture at home and abroad is relatively fragmented,the number being limited on the whole.The author tries to reset the modern Fuzhou export lacquer ware in the society,restore the original market environment on which it depends for survival,study the communication and complementary among the development of lacquer ware industry and economic operation,market regulation and urban destiny,and clarify the industrial construction and "practitioner" survival of modern Fuzhou export lacquer ware.The blueprint of modern Fuzhou’s export lacquer ware industry described in the social field,huge funds have been invested.,the blowout lacquer workshops of different clans have been set up,the professionalization of modern education provided a large number of professionals,which make Fuzhou lacquer industry rise with the trend,rapidly radiating the whole Fuzhou.Drawing lessons from the history of material evidence and material history,this paper reveals that Fuzhou lacquer ware was first affected by the wave of global trade in modern times and developed in the gap between"localization" and "globalization".From the three regional dimensions of local,domestic and overseas,regarding the lacquer Workshop as a collaboration of art",this paper,making a painstaking investigation,expounds all links of Fuzhou export lacquer ware production and marketing chain,and how to build a marketing network for Fuzhou export lacquer ware.From an economic perspective,Fuzhou export lacquer industry was coerced into the cruel market competition by capital after breaking the technical barrier protection of lacquer ware and the disappearance of Fuzhou regional effect.The fusing of the export market chain has led to the polarization of the industrial structure.The export market of the second industry level,which is the mainstay,has out of existence.The first level lacquer workshop innovating lacquer ware,improving painting and decoration,widely learning from others’ strong points,creates "art lacquer ware" to consolidate the overseas export share of high-end lacquer ware.Therefore,Fuzhou lacquer ware has completed the transformation from capital-intensive and human-intensive industry to technology-intensive industry with additional skills and aesthetic value.Guided by the paradox of counter prosperity,this port based on the research framework that humanistic society interwoven with economy,this paper expounds in detail the basic "elements" in the field of modern export lacquer ware industry chain,intends to restore the real status of export lacquer ware,arranging,reconstructing and integrating according to economic rules and internal and external factors of the market,this paper explores how the "craftsmen" of the lacquer industry in modern Fuzhou survived and regained their rebirth in the modern context,how lacquer practitioners deal with the industrial rise and fall and remain invincible in the treacherous export market competition,and how lacquer objects and social destiny depend on and influence each other.From the perspective of industry,under the background of modern society,this paper describes the research on Fuzhou export lacquer ware that originated from family handicraft industry and national industry and flourished benefiting from maritime trade.