Gifts, Favors, and Banquets - The Art of Social Relationships in China (Paperback, New)

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."

General

Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture
Release date:	August 1994
First published:	2016
Authors:	Mayfair Mei-hui Yang
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	384
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8014-9592-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Customs
LSN:	0-8014-9592-X
Barcode:	9780801495922

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