Gifts, Favors, and Banquets : The Art of Social Relationships in China /

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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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Autor principal: Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1994.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Reseaux sociaux > Chine.
Interaction sociale > Chine.
Cadeaux > Chine.
Societe civile > Chine.
Individualisme > Chine.
Informele economie.
Schenkingen.
Sociale netwerken.
Social networks.
Social interaction.
Politics and government
Individualism.
Gifts.
Communism and individualism.
Civil society.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Communisme et individualisme > Chine.
Civil society > China.
Communism and individualism > China.
Individualism > China.
Gifts > China.
Social networks > China.
Social interaction > China.
Chine > Politique et gouvernement.
China.
China > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Fieldwork, Politics, and Modernity in China. The "Discovery" of Guanxixue. Guanxixue as an Object of Study. Fieldwork in a Culture of Fear. The Subject-Position of the Anthropologist. State Projects of Modernity in China and Native Critiques
  • 1. Guanxi Dialects and Vocabulary. Popular Discourse. Official Discourse. Key Words and Concepts of Guanxixue in Popular Discourse
  • 2. The Scope and Use-Contexts of Guanxi. The City and the Countryside. The Gender Dimension. Urban Occupational Strata. The Variety of Use-Contexts. A Society of Gatekeepers. Corporate and Administrative Uses
  • 3. The "Art" in Guanxixue: Ethics, Tactics, and Etiquette. Guanxi Bases: Kinship, Friendship, and Other Personal Relations. Affective Sentiments: Yiqi, Ganqing, and Renqing. Enlarging a Guanxi Network. The Tactic, Obligation, and Form of Giving and Receiving. The Obligation to Repay
  • 4. On the Recent Past of Guanxixue: Traditional Forms and Historical (Re- )Emergence. Three Official Histories.
  • Guanxixue and Chinese Culture. The Postrevolutionary Decline and Rise of Guanxixue. From "Use-Value" to "Exchange-Value": The Entrance of Market Forces. The Art of Guanxi Does Not Retreat
  • 5. The Political Economy of Gift Relations. The Techniques of Power in the State Redistributive Economy. Countertechniques in the Gift Economy. Propositions
  • 6. "Using the Past to Negate the Present": Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient China. "Criticize Lin Biao, Criticize Confucius" A Reinterpretation of the Past
  • 7. The Cult of Mao, Guanxi Subjects, and the Return of the Individual. A Sweep of Red: State Subjects and the Cult of Mao. The Return of the Individual Subject. Guanxi Subjectivity of Addition and Subtraction
  • 8. Rhizomatic Networks and the Fabric of an Emerging Minjian in China. In-between the Individual and Society. In-between the Individual and Groups or Associations. Rhizomatic Kinship and Guanxi Polity: From Guanxi Networks to a Minjian
  • Conclusion: Back to the Source.
  • The Female Supple Force of Exchange. Ritual as a Self-organizing Vehicle of the Minjian. Renqing over Guanxi.

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