Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present

by Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang

Book Overview

An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business--all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of obligation, indebtedness, and reciprocity. Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080149592X
• ISBN13: 9780801495922
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher