Gifts, Favors, and Banquets - Mayfair Mei-hui Yang

Gifts, Favors, and Banquets

The Art of Social Relationships in China
Buch | Softcover
384 Seiten
1994
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-9592-2 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
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...
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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.8.1994
Reihe/Serie The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture
Verlagsort Ithaca
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 907 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Volkskunde
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8014-9592-X / 080149592X
ISBN-13 978-0-8014-9592-2 / 9780801495922
Zustand Neuware
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