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The flow of gifts: Reciprocity and social networks in a Chinese village /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The flow of gifts: Reciprocity and social networks in a Chinese village // Yun-xiang Yan.
Author:	Yan, Yun-xiang,
Description:	1 electronic resource (281 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 55-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International55-05A.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9331085
ISBN:	9798641936857

The flow of gifts: Reciprocity and social networks in a Chinese village /
Yan, Yun-xiang,

The flow of gifts: Reciprocity and social networks in a Chinese village /Yun-xiang Yan. - 1 electronic resource (281 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 55-05, Section: A.

This dissertation offers an ethnographic account of patterns of interpersonal relations manifested in the endless process of gift exchange in a rural community in north China. The dissertation consists of three parts. First, an effort is made to construct a classification of exchange behavior in village society. The items of prestation, the types of gift-giving activities, and the hierarchial arrangement of givers and receivers are distinguished and examined. Certain features of the local system of gift exchange challenge received anthropological theories. The second part of this study focuses on the central role of gift exchange in building social networks among villagers. The emic concepts of guanxi (social networks), renqing (norms of interpersonal behavior), mianzi (face), and bao (reciprocity) are discussed in detail; it is argued that these concepts constitute the key to understanding social exchange in Chinese culture. The cultivation of social networks in village society is characterized by the combination of both interest and disinterest, expressivity and instrumentality, the voluntary and the constrained. Further analysis shows that the structure of social relations in north China villages largely rests on fluid, person-centered social networks rather than on fixed social institutions. The third part is concerned with the interactions between gift exchange as a tradition-based pattern of social behavior and the penetration of state socialism as an attempt to transform the social life of Chinese peasants. Findings from village society demonstrate that the gift economy and, with it, elaborate social networks have not only survived radical Maoist attacks but also actively adjusted themselves in response to the social changes brought on by four decades of socialism. As a result, both gift exchange and personal relations are currently developing into a more complex cultural form.

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ISBN: 9798641936857Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.

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