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OverviewDespite growing affluence, a large number of urban Chinese have problems making ends meet. Based on ethnographic research among several different types of communities in Guangzhou, China, Soup, Love and a Helping Hand examines different modes and ideologies of help/support, as well as the related issues of reciprocity, relatedness (kinship), and changing state-society relations in contemporary China. With an emphasis on the subjective experience, Fleischer's research carefully explores people's ideas about moral obligations, social expectations, and visions of urban Chinese society. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Friederike FleischerPublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books Volume: 8 ISBN: 9781785336553ISBN 10: 178533655 Pages: 194 Publication Date: 21 February 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Map List of Main Interlocutors Introduction PART I: SOUP Chapter 1. If Not His Child, Who Will Pay for His Living? : Household and Kin-Based Support Chapter 2. Neighbors and Friends Chapter 3. Support and Reciprocity PART II: LOVE Chapter 4. Religious Revival Chapter 5. The Church: Social and Religious Services Chapter 6. Love: A Community of Believers PART III: A HELPING HAND Chapter 7. Philanthropy, Charity, and Volunteerism Chapter 8. Inspirations and Motivations to Volunteer Chapter 9. Volunteering: Governmentality and Agency Conclusion: Soup, Love, and a Helping Hand: Urban Transformations and the Ethics of Social Support Bibliography IndexReviewsThe ethnography throughout is solidly empirical and also delicately sensitive to multiple nuances of meaning, the myriad of considerations that enter into each act of support, whether in reciprocity or in generalized gift, and the weight of consequences in precarious circumstances...The volume is well-written, concise, and readable, valuable for readers in the field and accessible for both informed general readers and university students. * Anthropos This excellent monograph will be of great use to both scholars of contemporary China as well as to students at both graduate and undergraduate levels. * Ellen Oxfeld, Middlebury College This excellent monograph will be of great use to both scholars of contemporary China as well as to students at both graduate and undergraduate levels. * Ellen Oxfeld, Middlebury College Author InformationFriederike Fleischer is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. She was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany. She is the author of Surburban Beijing (2010), and co-editor of Ethnographies of Support (2013). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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