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9780801495922

Gifts, Favors, and Banquets

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    9780801495922

  • ISBN10:

    080149592X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1994-08-01
  • Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Fieldwork, Politics, and Modernity in Chinap. 1
The "Discovery" of Guanxixuep. 1
Guanxixue as an Object of Studyp. 6
Fieldwork in a Culture of Fearp. 15
The Subject-Position of the Anthropologistp. 25
State Projects of Modernity in China and Native Critiquesp. 31
Guanxi Dialects and Vocabularyp. 49
Popular Discoursep. 51
Official Discoursep. 58
Key Words and Concepts of Guanxixue in Popular Discoursep. 64
The Scope and Use-Contexts of Guanxip. 75
The City and the Countrysidep. 75
The Gender Dimensionp. 78
Urban Occupational Stratap. 85
The Variety of Use-Contextsp. 91
A Society of Gatekeepersp. 99
Corporate and Administrative Usesp. 101
The "Art" in Guanxixue: Ethics, Tactics, and Etiquettep. 109
Guanxi Bases: Kinship, Friendship, and Other Personal Relationsp. 111
Affective Sentiments: Yiqi, Ganqing, and Renqingp. 119
Enlarging a Guanxi Networkp. 123
The Tactic, Obligation, and Form of Giving and Receivingp. 126
The Obligation to Repayp. 139
On the Recent Past of Guanxixue: Traditional Forms and Historical (Re-)Emergencep. 146
Three Official Historiesp. 146
Guanxixue and Chinese Culturep. 148
The Postrevolutionary Decline and Rise of Guanxixuep. 153
From "Use-Value" to "Exchange-Value": The Entrance of Market Forcesp. 159
The Art of Guanxi Does Not Retreatp. 166
The Political Economy of Gift Relationsp. 177
The Techniques of Power in the State Redistributive Economyp. 179
Countertechniques in the Gift Economyp. 188
Propositionsp. 204
"Using the Past to Negate the Present": Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient Chinap. 209
"Criticize Lin Biao, Criticize Confucius"p. 210
A Reinterpretation of the Pastp. 216
The Cult of Mao, Guanxi Subjects, and the Return of the Individualp. 245
A Sweep of Red: State Subjects and the Cult of Maop. 247
The Return of the Individual Subjectp. 276
Guanxi Subjectivity of Addition and Subtractionp. 281
Rhizomatic Networks and the Fabric of an Emerging Minjian in Chinap. 287
In-between the Individual and Societyp. 295
In-between the Individual and Groups or Associationsp. 300
Rhizomatic Kinship and Guanxi Polity: From Guanxi Networks to a Minjianp. 305
Conclusion: Back to the Sourcep. 312
The Female Supple Force of Exchangep. 312
Ritual as a Self-organizing Vehicle of the Minjianp. 317
Renqing over Guanxip. 320
Glossaryp. 323
Chinese and Japanese Bibliographyp. 334
English Bibliographyp. 341
Indexp. 361
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