ISBN:
0857458914
,
1299777686
,
9780857458919
,
9781299777682
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 276 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
Dislocations v. 10
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Steinmüller, Hans Communities of Complicity : Everyday Ethics in Rural China
DDC:
303.3720951
Keywords:
Country life
;
Social ethics
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
;
Country life
;
Manners and customs
;
Social ethics
;
Zhongba (Enshi Shi, Hubei Sheng, China) Social life and customs
;
Electronic books
;
Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
A remote place from three angles -- Gabled roofs and concrete ceilings -- Work through the food basket -- Channelling along a centring path -- The embarrassment of Li -- Gambling and the moving boundaries of social heat -- Face projects in rural construction -- Everyday ethics, cultural intimacy, and irony.
Abstract:
Everyday life in contemporary rural China is characterized by an increased sense of moral challenge and uncertainty. Ordinary people often find themselves caught between the moral frameworks of capitalism, Maoism and the Chinese tradition. This ethnographic study of the village of Zhongba (in Hubei Province, central China) is an attempt to grasp the ethical reflexivity of everyday life in rural China. Drawing on descriptions of village life, interspersed with targeted theoretical analyses, the author examines how ordinary people construct their own senses of their lives and their futures in
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index
URL:
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