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Producing Guanxi: Sentiments, Self, & Subculture in a North China Village
KIPNIS Andrew B. [Other titles by this author]
Stock ID: 8882
ISBN: 9780822318835
Duke University Press 1997 1st Edition
240 x 160mm; 11 b&w photographs; 3 maps; 5 figures. 248pp
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. (For this item please quote stock ID 8882)
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