Gifts, Favors, and Banquets - The Art of Social Relationships in China

Mayfair Yang is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the editor of Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China.

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...

Product details

• Authors: Mayfair Mei Yang, Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.08.1994
• EAN: 9780801495922
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-9592-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 228 mm x 155 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 582 g
• Series: The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture; Wilder House Series in Politic; The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture; The Wilder House Politics, His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology