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Introduction: Fieldwork, Politics, and Modernity in China | p. 1 |
The "Discovery" of Guanxixue | p. 1 |
Guanxixue as an Object of Study | p. 6 |
Fieldwork in a Culture of Fear | p. 15 |
The Subject-Position of the Anthropologist | p. 25 |
State Projects of Modernity in China and Native Critiques | p. 31 |
Guanxi Dialects and Vocabulary | p. 49 |
Popular Discourse | p. 51 |
Official Discourse | p. 58 |
Key Words and Concepts of Guanxixue in Popular Discourse | p. 64 |
The Scope and Use-Contexts of Guanxi | p. 75 |
The City and the Countryside | p. 75 |
The Gender Dimension | p. 78 |
Urban Occupational Strata | p. 85 |
The Variety of Use-Contexts | p. 91 |
A Society of Gatekeepers | p. 99 |
Corporate and Administrative Uses | p. 101 |
The "Art" in Guanxixue: Ethics, Tactics, and Etiquette | p. 109 |
Guanxi Bases: Kinship, Friendship, and Other Personal Relations | p. 111 |
Affective Sentiments: Yiqi, Ganqing, and Renqing | p. 119 |
Enlarging a Guanxi Network | p. 123 |
The Tactic, Obligation, and Form of Giving and Receiving | p. 126 |
The Obligation to Repay | p. 139 |
On the Recent Past of Guanxixue: Traditional Forms and Historical (Re-)Emergence | p. 146 |
Three Official Histories | p. 146 |
Guanxixue and Chinese Culture | p. 148 |
The Postrevolutionary Decline and Rise of Guanxixue | p. 153 |
From "Use-Value" to "Exchange-Value": The Entrance of Market Forces | p. 159 |
The Art of Guanxi Does Not Retreat | p. 166 |
The Political Economy of Gift Relations | p. 177 |
The Techniques of Power in the State Redistributive Economy | p. 179 |
Countertechniques in the Gift Economy | p. 188 |
Propositions | p. 204 |
"Using the Past to Negate the Present": Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient China | p. 209 |
"Criticize Lin Biao, Criticize Confucius" | p. 210 |
A Reinterpretation of the Past | p. 216 |
The Cult of Mao, Guanxi Subjects, and the Return of the Individual | p. 245 |
A Sweep of Red: State Subjects and the Cult of Mao | p. 247 |
The Return of the Individual Subject | p. 276 |
Guanxi Subjectivity of Addition and Subtraction | p. 281 |
Rhizomatic Networks and the Fabric of an Emerging Minjian in China | p. 287 |
In-between the Individual and Society | p. 295 |
In-between the Individual and Groups or Associations | p. 300 |
Rhizomatic Kinship and Guanxi Polity: From Guanxi Networks to a Minjian | p. 305 |
Conclusion: Back to the Source | p. 312 |
The Female Supple Force of Exchange | p. 312 |
Ritual as a Self-organizing Vehicle of the Minjian | p. 317 |
Renqing over Guanxi | p. 320 |
Glossary | p. 323 |
Chinese and Japanese Bibliography | p. 334 |
English Bibliography | p. 341 |
Index | p. 361 |
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