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Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China
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Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China
Current price: $130.00
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Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China
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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.