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.
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
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