Communities of Complicity: Everyday Ethics in Rural China - Couverture souple

Steinmüller, Hans

 
9781782389149: Communities of Complicity: Everyday Ethics in Rural China
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1782389148 ISBN 13 : 9781782389149
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2015

Synopsis

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 everyday activities: building houses, working, celebrating marriages and funerals, gambling and dealing with local government. The villagers confront moral uncertainty; they creatively harmonize public discourse and local practice; and sometimes they resolve incoherence and unease through the use of irony. In so doing, they perform everyday ethics and re-create transient moral communities at a time of massive social dislocation.

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À propos de l?auteur

Hans Steinmüller is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and convenor of the MSc China in Comparative Perspective at the London School of Economics.

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Éditeur
Berghahn Books
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1782389148
ISBN 13 
9781782389149
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
290
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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