Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China - Couverture souple

Yang, Mayfair Mei-Hui

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 080149592X ISBN 13 : 9780801495922

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 1994

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mayfair Yang is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the editor of Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080149592X
• ISBN 13: 9780801495922
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible