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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1994.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 online resource (384 pages).
ISBN:9781501713057

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