Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present
Yang, Mayfair Mei-Hui
ISBN 10: 080149592X ISBN 13: 9780801495922
Published by Cornell University Press, 2000
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Synopsis:
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.
About the Author:
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.
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Title: Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: Sound and ...
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
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