Producing Guanxi: Sentiment, Self, and Subculture in a North China Village

By Andrew Kipnis

Book Overview

This book combines the theory of Pierre Bourdieu and the insights of symbolic anthropology to contest past portrayals of guanxi as either a function of Chinese political economics or an unchanging Confucian social structure. In this analysis guanxi emerges as a purposeful human effort that makes use of past cultural logics while generating new ones.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822318830
• ISBN13: 9780822318835
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages

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