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Carte Producing Guanxi Andrew B. Kipnis

Producing Guanxi

Sentiment, Self, and Subculture in a North China Village

Autor: Andrew B. Kipnis
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: Duke University Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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Throughout China the formation of guanxi, or social connections, involves friends, families, colleag...

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Autor
Andrew B. Kipnis
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
1997
Pagini
248
EAN
9780822318736
ISBN
0822318733
Enbook ID
04936724
Editura
Duke University Press
Greutate
426
Dimensiuni
167 x 235 x 16

Descriere completă

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 B. 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. "Producing Guanxi" combines the theory of Pierre Bourdieu and the insights of symbolic anthropology to contest past portrayals of guanxi as either a function of Chinese political economics or an unchanging Confucian social structure. In this analysis, guanxi emerges as a purposeful human effort that makes use of past cultural logics while generating new ones. By exploring the role of sentiment in the creation of self, Kipnis critiques recent theories of subjectivity for their narrow focus on language and discourse, and contributes to the anthropological discussion of comparative selfhood. Navigating a path between mainstream social science and abstract social theory, Kipnis presents a more nuanced examination of guanxi than has previously been available and contributes generally to our understanding of relationships and human action. His findings will interest students of Chinese society, as well as scholars across the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, and social psychology.

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