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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