| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 370 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture
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Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-359) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
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The Female Supple Force of Exchange. Ritual as a Self-organizing Vehicle of the Minjian. Renqing over Guanxi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social interaction -- China.
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Social interaction. |
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China. |
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Social networks -- China.
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Social networks. |
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Gifts -- China.
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Gifts. |
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Individualism -- China.
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Individualism. |
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Communism and individualism -- China.
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Communism and individualism. |
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Civil society -- China.
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Civil society. |
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China -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui. Gifts, favors, and banquets. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1994 0801423430 (DLC) 94002653 (OCoLC)29751638 |
| ISBN |
9781501713057 (electronic book) |
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1501713051 (electronic book) |
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0801423430 |
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9780801423437 |
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080149592X |
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9780801495922 |
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