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Gifts, Favors, and Banquets

Author : Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501713051
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Gifts, Favors, and Banquets written by Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Gifts, Favors, and Banquets

Author : Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501713043
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Technomobility in China

Author : Cara Wallis
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479866083
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Technomobility in China written by Cara Wallis and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2014 Bonnie Ritter Book Award Winner of the 2013 James W. Carey Media Research Award As unprecedented waves of young, rural women journey to cities in China, not only to work, but also to “see the world” and gain some autonomy, they regularly face significant institutional obstacles as well as deep-seated anti-rural prejudices. Based on immersive fieldwork, Cara Wallis provides an intimate portrait of the social, cultural, and economic implications of mobile communication for a group of young women engaged in unskilled service work in Beijing, where they live and work for indefinite periods of time. While simultaneously situating her work within the fields of feminist studies, technology studies, and communication theory, Wallis explores the way in which the cell phone has been integrated into the transforming social structures and practices of contemporary China, and the ways in which mobile technology enables rural young women—a population that has been traditionally marginalized and deemed as “backward” and “other”—to participate in and create culture, allowing them to perform a modern, rural-urban identity. In this theoretically rich and empirically grounded analysis, Wallis provides original insight into the co-construction of technology and subjectivity as well as the multiple forces that shape contemporary China.

Social Media in Rural China

Author : Tom McDonald
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1910634670
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Social Media in Rural China written by Tom McDonald and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s distinctive social media platforms have gained notable popularity among the nation’s vast number of internet users, but has China’s countryside been ‘left behind’ in this communication revolution? Tom McDonald spent 15 months living in a small rural Chinese community researching how the residents use social media in their daily lives. His ethnographic findings suggest that, far from being left behind, many rural Chinese people have already integrated social media into their everyday experience.Throughout his ground-breaking study, McDonald argues that social media allows rural people to extend and transform their social relationships by deepening already existing connections with friends known through their school, work or village, while also experimenting with completely new forms of relationships through online interactions with strangers, particularly when looking for love and romance. By juxtaposing these seemingly opposed relations, rural social media users are able to use these technologies to understand, capitalise on and challenge the notions of morality that underlie rural life.

Social Connections in China

Author : Thomas Gold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521530316
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Social Connections in China written by Thomas Gold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assesses the evolving role of guanxi (social networks) in China's transforming society.

Gift-Giving in Japan

Author : Katherine Rupp
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804747040
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Gift-Giving in Japan written by Katherine Rupp and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gift-giving is extremely important in Japanese society, not only at personal and household levels, but at the national and macroeconomic levels as well. This book is the first in English to document the extraordinary scale, complexity, and variation of giving in contemporary Japan. Gift-Giving in Japan is based on eighteen months' fieldwork in the Tokyo metropolitan area, as well as short-term research in other parts of Japan. The core of the study is the experience of family representatives of different ages, classes, genders, occupations, neighborhoods, and religions. The author also interviewed experts, including the author of gift-giving etiquette books, Buddhist and Shinto priests, department store and funeral home employees, and workers at Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market. She participated in neighborhood festivals, election rallies, house-building rites, and other ceremonies of which gift-giving was an integral part. Recent anthropological interest in drawing a strong contrast between commodities and gifts both reflects and reinforces the conception of the gift as part of the giver and the related distinction between the realm of the gift and the realm of the marketplace. The author argues that Japanese practices of giving and receiving challenge assumptions related to this idea of the gift.

Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader

Author : Geremie Barme
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315285762
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader written by Geremie Barme and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essays, poems, songs, folkloric anecdotes and photographs celebrating the myth of Mao. ... The editor supplies an insightful, and cohesing introduction". -- Reference & Research Book News "(A) highly entertaining and informative collection of translations of official, admiring, tacky, but sometimes also highly critical writings, and illustrations of objects, all featuring Mao. ... A must-have book for everybody interested in contemporary China, Mao, and his legacy now and in the future". -- China Information

Commercial Law in East Asia

Author : Roman Tomasic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351571540
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Commercial Law in East Asia written by Roman Tomasic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shift of economic gravity towards East Asia requires a critical examination of law's role in the Asian Century. This volume explores the diverse scholarly perspectives on law's role in the economic rise of East Asia and moves from general debates, such as whether law enjoys primacy over culture, state intervention or free markets in East Asian capitalism, to specific case studies looking at the nature of law in East Asian negotiations, contracts, trade policy and corporate governance. The collection of articles exposes the clefts and cleavages in the scholarly literature explaining law's form, function and future in the Asian Century.

Economies of Favour After Socialism

Author : David Henig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199687412
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Economies of Favour After Socialism written by David Henig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the onset of the global economic crisis, activists, policy makers, and social scientists have been searching for alternative paradigms through which to re-imagine contemporary modes of thinking and writing about economic orders. These attempts have led to their re-engagement with fundamental anthropological categories of economic analysis, such as barter, debt, and the gift. Focusing on favours, and the paradoxes of action, meaning, and significance they engender, this volume advocates for their addition to this list of economic universals. It presents a critical re-interrogation of the conceptual relationships between gratuitous and instrumental behaviour, and raises novel questions about the intersection of economic actions with the ethical and expressive aspects of human life. Scholars of post-socialist politics and society have often used 'favour' as a by-word for corruption and clientelism. The contributors to this volume treat favours, and the doing of favours, as a distinct mode of acting, rather than as a form of 'masked' economic exchange or simply an expression of goodwill. Casting their comparative net from post-socialist Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe; to the former Soviet Union, Mongolia, and post-Maoist China, the contributors to this volume show how gratuitous behaviour shapes a plethora of different actions, practices, and judgements across religious and political life, imaginative practices, and local moral economies. They show that favours do not operate 'outside' or 'beyond' the economic sphere. Rather, they constitute a distinct mode of action which has economic consequences, without being fully explicable in terms of transactional cost-benefit analyses.

Gift and Duty

Author : Paul H. De Neui
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532638698
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Gift and Duty written by Paul H. De Neui and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the Christian concept of grace anathema to the social structure of merit-making found in Buddhist karmic communities? Are all Buddhist forms of merit-making purely for religious purposes to assuage cosmic consequences or are there other reasons? Are there not Christian churches who operate under a legalistic view of God’s divine wrath and are in essence living as karmic communities of the Christian type? The result of discussions about these and other questions is the volume you now hold in your hand. SEANET proudly presents what is number 14 in its series of missiological reference texts, Gift and Duty: Where Grace and Merit Meet. Each of the ten authors presented here represent a particular perspective, both Christian and Buddhist, that can inform the other. The goal of this volume is to lead to a deeper understanding of the significance of diverse religious and cultural perspectives.

On Othering

Author : Yasmin Saikia
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1771993871
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book On Othering written by Yasmin Saikia and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every sphere of life, division and intolerance have polarized communities and entire nations. The learned construction of the Other—an evil “enemy” against whom both physical and discursive violence is deemed acceptable—has fractured humanity, creating divisions that seemingly defy reconciliation. How do we restore the bonds of connection among human beings? How do we shift from polarization to peace? On Othering: Processes and Politics of Unpeace examines the process of othering from an international perspective and considers how it undermines peacemaking and is perpetuated by colonialism and globalization. Taking a humanistic approach, contributors argue that celebrating differences can have a transformative change in seeking peaceful solutions to problems created by people, institutions, ideas, conditions, and circumstances. Touching on race, gender, sexuality, nationalism, and our relationship with the natural world, this volume attends to the deep injustices brought about by othering and recommends actions for mending the relationships that are essential to renewing the possibility of peace.

m-Science: Sensing, Computing and Dissemination

Author : Enrique Canessa
Publisher : m-Science: Mobile Science
ISBN 13 : 9295003438
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book m-Science: Sensing, Computing and Dissemination written by Enrique Canessa and published by m-Science: Mobile Science. This book was released on 2010 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crime, Punishment, and Policing in China

Author : Børge Bakken
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742535749
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Crime, Punishment, and Policing in China written by Børge Bakken and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime long has been a silent partner in China's march to modernization, leading the regime to make law and order as central a priority as economic growth and the promise of prosperity. This groundbreaking study offers the first comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Chinese crime, policing, and punishment. A multidisciplinary group of leading scholars draw on a rich body of empirical data and rare archival research to illuminate seldom-explored theoretical dimensions of legal ideology and reform as well as the linkages between crime and control to broader themes of law, modernization, and development. The authors balance comparative perspectives with an understanding of China's unique historical and cultural experience. This context is critical, the authors argue, as crime and control are at the root of modernity and how it is defined. In many ways the PRC is reliving the experiences of other industrializing countries, yet at the same time the practices of China's police and prison system also are painted with thick layers of historical memory. Order has become increasingly important in legitimizing the Chinese regime, but its practices and ideas of policing are often missing from our picture of Chinese social and political development. This important book's discussion of the paradoxes of policing and the problems of order bridges that gap and demystifies developments in China. All those interested in modern and contemporary Chinese politics, law, and society, as well as in comparative criminology and law, will find this work an invaluable resource. Contributions by: B rge Bakken, Frank Dik tter, Michael Dutton, James D. Seymour, Murray Scot Tanner, and Xu Zhangrun.

Cooperation in Chinese Communities

Author : Charles Stafford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000181545
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Cooperation in Chinese Communities written by Charles Stafford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When humans cooperate, what are the social and psychological mechanisms that enable them to do so successfully? Is cooperativeness something natural for humans, built in to our species over the course of evolution, or rather something that depends on cultural learning and social interaction? This book addresses these central questions concerning human nature and the nature of cooperation. The editors present a wide range of vivid anthropological case-studies focused on everyday cooperation in Chinese communities, for example, between children in Nanjing playing a ballgame; parents in Edinburgh organising a community school; villagers in Yunnan dealing with “common pool” resource problems; and families in Kinmen in Taiwan worshipping their dead together. On the one hand, these case studies illustrate some uniquely Chinese cultural factors, such as those related to kinship ideals and institutions that shape the experience and practice of cooperation. They also illustrate, on the other hand, how China’s recent history, not least the rise and fall of collectivism in various forms, continues to shape the experience of cooperation for ordinary people in China today. Finally, they show that in spite of the cultural and historical particularity of Chinese cooperation, it does share some underlying features that would be familiar to people coming from radically different backgrounds.

Drink Water, But Remember the Source

Author : Ellen Oxfeld
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520260953
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Drink Water, But Remember the Source written by Ellen Oxfeld and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drink Water, But Remember the Source is a lively and readable ethnography that will reshape our understanding of moral discourse in the Chinese countryside. Oxfeld greatly improves upon the usual claims that China is losing all forms of communal morality by illustrating the multiplicity of views refracted through concrete events."—Robert P. Weller, Boston University

Drunk in China

Author : Derek Sandhaus
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640120971
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Drunk in China written by Derek Sandhaus and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Gourmand Award in Spirits Gold Medal winner in the Independent Book Publishers Awards China is one of the world’s leading producers and consumers of liquor, with alcohol infusing all aspects of its culture, from religion and literature to business and warfare. Yet to the outside world, China’s most famous spirit, baijiu, remains a mystery. This is about to change, as baijiu is now being served in cocktail bars beyond its borders. Drunk in China follows Derek Sandhaus’s journey of discovery into the world’s oldest drinking culture. He travels throughout the country and around the globe to meet with distillers, brewers, snake-oil salesmen, archaeologists, and ordinary drinkers. He examines the many ways in which alcohol has shaped Chinese society and its rituals. He visits production floors, karaoke parlors, hotpot joints, and speakeasies. Along the way he uncovers a tradition spanning more than nine thousand years and explores how recent economic and political developments have conspired to push Chinese alcohol beyond the nation’s borders for the first time. As Chinese society becomes increasingly international, its drinking culture must also adapt to the times. Can the West also adapt and clink glasses with China? Read Drunk in China and find out.

Entertaining from Ancient Rome to the Super Bowl [2 volumes]

Author : Melitta Weiss Adamson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313086893
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Entertaining from Ancient Rome to the Super Bowl [2 volumes] written by Melitta Weiss Adamson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest times, humans have enjoyed dining and entertainment with family and friends, from sharing a simple meal to an extravagant feast for a special celebration. In this two-volume set, entries tell the history of wedding and religious customs, holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas, and modern day get togethers such as block parties and Superbowl parties. Providing a worldwide perspective on celebration, entries on topics such as Dim Sum, La Quinceanera Parties, Deepavali, and Juneteenth cover many cultures. In addition, entries on Ancient Rome, Medieval entertaining, and others give an inside view as to what entertaining was like during those times, should readers want to recreate these themes for school projects or club banquets. Whether a student of history or world language class, or an adult planning a theme party, there is something in Entertaining from Ancient Rome to the Super Bowl for everyone.