Guanxi or Li shang wanglai? -Reciprocity, Social Support Networks, & Social Creativity in a Chinese Village

Guanxi or Li shang wanglai? -Reciprocity, Social Support Networks, & Social Creativity in a Chinese Village

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作者:Xiangqun Chang(常向群)/coordinator of the China in Comparative Perspective Network(倫敦政經學院中國比較研究網研究員)
出版日期:2010/06
語文:英文
ISBN/識別號:9789866286186
DOI/電子書:10.6140/AP.9789866286186

 

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Li shang wanglai is a phrase that combines practice and principle. It is what others have discussed as Confucianism. But it is the summation of what is practised in daily life and without the leadership of an elite intelligentsia. With this phrase the author has brought together what had been separately discussed: the social philosophy of bao (asymmetrical reciprocity), the central importance of mianzi and lian (face), the moral economy of renqing (human relationships of fellow-feeling), the art of making guanxiwang (social networks), and much else. She shows how they work together in what might be called a discursive constellation. Using sociological and anthropological theorisations of reciprocal relations in China and Japan, she creates a framework of four dimensions, namely, principled rational calculation, human-feeling, moral, and religious, and four kinds of relationships, namely, instrumental, expressive, negative and generous.

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Publication date 2010年7月30日
圖書類型 學術書
常向群
祖籍中國瀋陽,長於南昌,現為英籍並定居於倫敦。政治學學士、社會學碩士、社會人類學博士。現為倫敦政經學院中國比較研究網研究員、中國比較網負責人、《中國比較研究》責任主編。發表過近百萬字的中文著述,代表作為《馬克思主義社會學論稿》。英文著作包括:Social Support in Rural China (1979-1991): A Statistical Report on Ten Villages (Co-author with Stephan Feuchtwang, London: City University, 1996); Socio-economic Transformation in China and Chinese Woman (Co-editor with West, Zhao and Cheng, Basingstoke, London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1999)。

Dr Xiangqun Chang is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and coordinator of the China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN). She is also special-term professor at the Centre for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Fudan University, and visiting professor at the School of Humanities and Law, Northeastern University. Before coming to the UK, as a university lecturer in sociology, she was extensively published (amounting to one million Chinese characters). Since working and studying in the UK she has developed extensive skills in both quantitative and qualitative analysis and applied them to many projects. Based on a thorough and detailed ethnography of a Chinese village with longitudinal comparisons, she has been developing a general analytical concept—lishang-wanglai (禮尚─往來)—a Chinese model of reciprocity, relatedness and social networks. Currently she is testing the lishang-wanglai model in the area of Chinese entrepreneur relationships inside and outside China with both inter-disciplinary and comparative approaches.
Contents
Recommendations from scholars
Preface
Introduction

PART ONE VILLAGE PORTRAITURE
Chapter I Economic, administrative and informal systems
Chapter II Local customs (I)
Chapter III Local customs (II)

PART TWO THE PRACTICE OF “LISHANG-WANGLAI”
Chapter IV Generous wanglai
Chapter V Expressive wanglai in life cycle events (I)
Chapter VI Expressive wanglai in life cycle events (II)
Chapter VII Expressive wanglai in annual cycle and emergency events
Chapter VIII Instrumental and negative wanglai

PART THREE “LISHANG-WANGLAI” MODEL
Chapter IX Theoretical approaches and exploration of “lishang-wanglai”
Chapter X Review of related Chinese notions
Chapter XI Construction of the “lishang-wanglai” model
Chapter XII Tests and applications of the “lishang-wanglai” model
Conclusion

Appendix
I. Conversion of Currencies and Measures
II.List of place names
III. Characters List

Bibliography
Postscript