英文摘要
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In the early 19 (superscript th) century the Lin Ben-yuan family built a stone mansion in Ta-hsi. With this they started a history of hiring craftsmen of wood frame and carving from Tangshan (China) to construction sites in Taiwan. Subsequently, when the other local gentry families began to build houses or ancestral halls in the mid- to late 19 (superscript th) century, they also employed Chinese joiners to make religious and daily-use woodworks. The Han-Chinese style woodworks thus continued to develop in this area. Therefore, the introduction and re-production of Han-Chinese style woodwork in the 19 (superscript th) century became a crucial beginning for the expansion of woodwork culture in the Ta-hsi area.
In the first half of the 20 (superscript th) century, under the Japanese colonial rule, the Ta-hsi woodwork industry underwent modernization, which brought about the Yan-se (Chinese style) and the Han-Ho (Chinese and Japanese) composite-style furniture.
After the 2nd World War, with its innate and acquired advantages, Ta-hsi came to be an important town of Taiwan's woodwork industry from the 1960s to the 1980s. For more than a hundred years both Chinese and local carpenters in different stages created woodworks with stylistic features that reflect changes in manufacturing techniques, consumer organizations, social background, aesthetics and designing concepts. In this article, I examine Ta-hsi woodworks by artisans of different periods of time to explore their collective style that was generated after a process of fine-tuning and integration and manifest both era and geographical features.
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