thinking aloud here, so...
just maybe, a stamp which only states "china" is far too ambiguous for a knifenut
afterall germany has got mighty solingen; and japan with it's sacred samurai's one-stop city of seki.
and what of china?
does it even have a historical knife centre??
anybody's even heard of yangjiang city, guangdong province :-O
understand it's the commercial knife 'n scissor capital of china.
www.yangjiang.gov.cn/english/introduction/200909/t20090904_28236.htm
perhaps someday some intrepid knife importer will work their marketing magic about bringing to light - the enigma regarding china's largely missing historical knife making center.
it's a factual void that seems to be missing when marketing chinese made knives;
and this could partly explain the continued universal sense of great mistrust about chinese cutlery itself.
as a knifenut, i am hoping to see some historical and cultural proof which could bring to light any evidence of the slightest cultural reverence the chinese might have about their own knife making traditions.
mighty curious where has it has all gone to this past 3000 years??!
/www.cngint.com/NewLongOnes_id_1.html
an enigma, indeed.
