Gifts, Favors, and Banquets : : The Art of Social Relationships in China / / Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang.
An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business-all su...
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Yang, Mayfair Mei-Hui, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Gifts, Favors, and Banquets : The Art of Social Relationships in China / Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (384 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fieldwork, Polities, and Modernity in China -- PART I. An Ethnography of Micropolitics in a Socialist Setting -- 1. Guanxi Dialects and Vocabulary -- 2. The Scope and Use-Contexts of Guanxi -- 3. The "Art" in Guanxixue: Ethics, Tactics, and Etiquette -- 4. On the Recent Past of Guanxixue: Traditional Forms and Historical (Re-)Emergence -- PART II. THEORETICAL FORMULATIONS -- 5. The Political Economy of Gift Relations -- 6. "Using the Past to Negate the Present": Ritual Ethics and In State Rationality in Ancient China -- 7. The Cult of Mao, Guanxi Subjects, and the Return of the Individual -- 8. Rhizomatic Networks and the Fabric of an Emerging Minjian in China -- Conclusion: Back to the Source -- Glossary -- Chinese and Japanese Bibliography -- English Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business-all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of obligation, indebtedness, and reciprocity. Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's close scrutiny of this phenomenon serves as a window to view facets of a much broader and more complex cultural, historical, and political formation. Using rich and varied ethnographic examples of guanxi stemming from her fieldwork in China in the 1980s and 1990s, the author shows how this "gift economy" operates in the larger context of the socialist state redistributive economy. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Civil society China. Communism and individualism China. Gifts China. Individualism China. Social interaction China. Social networks China. Anthropology. Asian Studies. History. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package 9783110649826 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 print 9780801423437 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501713057 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501713057 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501713057/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fieldwork, Polities, and Modernity in China -- PART I. An Ethnography of Micropolitics in a Socialist Setting -- 1. Guanxi Dialects and Vocabulary -- 2. The Scope and Use-Contexts of Guanxi -- 3. The "Art" in Guanxixue: Ethics, Tactics, and Etiquette -- 4. On the Recent Past of Guanxixue: Traditional Forms and Historical (Re-)Emergence -- PART II. THEORETICAL FORMULATIONS -- 5. The Political Economy of Gift Relations -- 6. "Using the Past to Negate the Present": Ritual Ethics and In State Rationality in Ancient China -- 7. The Cult of Mao, Guanxi Subjects, and the Return of the Individual -- 8. Rhizomatic Networks and the Fabric of an Emerging Minjian in China -- Conclusion: Back to the Source -- Glossary -- Chinese and Japanese Bibliography -- English Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fieldwork, Polities, and Modernity in China -- PART I. An Ethnography of Micropolitics in a Socialist Setting -- 1. Guanxi Dialects and Vocabulary -- 2. The Scope and Use-Contexts of Guanxi -- 3. The "Art" in Guanxixue: Ethics, Tactics, and Etiquette -- 4. On the Recent Past of Guanxixue: Traditional Forms and Historical (Re-)Emergence -- PART II. THEORETICAL FORMULATIONS -- 5. The Political Economy of Gift Relations -- 6. "Using the Past to Negate the Present": Ritual Ethics and In State Rationality in Ancient China -- 7. The Cult of Mao, Guanxi Subjects, and the Return of the Individual -- 8. Rhizomatic Networks and the Fabric of an Emerging Minjian in China -- Conclusion: Back to the Source -- Glossary -- Chinese and Japanese Bibliography -- English Bibliography -- Index |
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