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Informationen zum Autor Susan D. Blum is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. Klappentext This provocative book explores the ideology of truth and deception in China, offering a nuanced perspective on social interaction in different cultural settings. Drawing on decades of fieldwork in China, Susan D. Blum examines rules, expectations, and beliefs regarding lying and honesty. She argues that public lying is evaluated within Chinese society by culturally specific moral values. Chinese, for example, might emphasize the consequences of speech, Americans the absolute truthfulness. But many Americans also excel in manipulation of language, yet find a simultaneous moral absolutism opposed to lying in any form. Blum considers Japanese and Jewish traditions as well, which similarly struggle to control the boundaries of honesty. Zusammenfassung Explores the ideology of truth and deception in China! offering an perspective on social interaction in different cultural settings. This book examines rules! expectations! and beliefs regarding lying and honesty. It argues that public lying is evaluated within Chinese society by culturally specific moral values. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Deception and TruthChapter 1: Truth, Lying, and Deception: Blum's Maxims for ChinaPart II: China PresentChapter 2: Tricks and Traps: Deception and Protective ClevernessChapter 3: For Their Own Good: Benevolent Deception and FlatteryChapter 4: State Secrets and Fakes: The True, the Real, the Transparent, and the SquelchedChapter 5: Longing for HonestyPart III: China PastChapter 6: Crooked and Straight: Right Action and Strategy in Premodern ChinaChapter 7: A Social Theory of Truth: Language in Revolutionary ChinaPart IV: Humanity and LanguageChapter 8: Truth and Deception across Time and SpaceChapter 9: Knowing How to Play with Words and MindsAppendix: Theoretical Foundations and Implications
