| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations. |
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| Series |
Dislocations ; v. 10
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Dislocations ; v. 10.
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| Contents |
A remote place from three angles -- Gabled roofs and concrete ceilings -- Work through the food basket -- Channelling along a centring path -- The embarrassment of Li -- Gambling and the moving boundaries of social heat -- Face projects in rural construction -- Everyday ethics, cultural intimacy, and irony. |
| Summary |
Everyday life in contemporary rural China is characterized by an increased sense of moral challenge and uncertainty. Ordinary people often find themselves caught between the moral frameworks of capitalism, Maoism and the Chinese tradition. This ethnographic study of the village of Zhongba (in Hubei Province, central China) is an attempt to grasp the ethical reflexivity of everyday life in rural China. Drawing on descriptions of village life, interspersed with targeted theoretical analyses, the author examines how ordinary people construct their own senses of their lives and their futures in. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Country life -- China -- Zhongba (Enshi Shi, Hubei Sheng)
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Country life. |
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China. |
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Social ethics -- China -- Zhongba (Enshi Shi, Hubei Sheng)
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Social ethics. |
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Zhongba (Enshi Shi, Hubei Sheng, China) -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Steinmüller, Hans. Communities of Complicity : Everyday Ethics in Rural China. New York : Berghahn Books, ©2013 9780857458902 |
| ISBN |
9780857458919 (electronic book) |
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0857458914 (electronic book) |
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1299777686 (electronic book) |
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9781299777682 (electronic book) |
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9780857458902 |
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0857458906 |
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