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Producing Guanxi - Sentiment, Self, and Subculture in a North China Village (Paperback, New)
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Producing Guanxi - Sentiment, Self, and Subculture in a North China Village (Paperback, New)
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Throughout China the formation of guanxi, or social connections,
involves friends, families, colleagues, and acquaintances in
complex networks of social support and sentimental attachment.
Focusing on this process in one rural north China village, Fengjia,
Andrew Kipnis shows what guanxi production reveals about the
evolution of village political economy, kinship and gender, and
local patterns of subjectivity in Dengist China. His work offers a
detailed description of the communicative actions-such as gift
giving, being a host or guest, participating in weddings or
funerals-that produce, manage, and deny guanxi in a specific time
and place. Kipnis also offers a rare comparative analysis of how
these practices relate to the varied and variable phenomenon of
guanxi throughout China and as it has changed over time. Producing
Guanxi combines the theory of Pierre Bourdieu and the insights of
symbolic anthropology to contest past portrayals of guanxi as
either a function of Chinese political economics or an unchanging
Confucian social structure. In this analysis guanxi emerges as a
purposeful human effort that makes use of past cultural logics
while generating new ones. By exploring the role of sentiment in
the creation of self, Kipnis critiques recent theories of
subjectivity for their narrow focus on language and discourse, and
contributes to the anthropological discussion of comparative
selfhood. Navigating a path between mainstream social science and
abstract social theory, Kipnis presents a more nuanced examination
of guanxi than has previously been available and contributes
generally to our understanding of relationships and human action.
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