{"product_id":"gifts-favors-and-banquets-sound-and-performance-from-the-1920s-to-the-present-paperback","title":"Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMayfair Mei-Hui Yang\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called \u003ci\u003eguanxi\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 close scrutiny of this phenomenon serves as a window to view facets of a much broader and more complex cultural, historical, and political formation. Using rich and varied ethnographic examples of \u003ci\u003eguanxi\u003c\/i\u003e stemming from her fieldwork in China in the 1980s and 1990s, the author shows how this \"gift economy\" operates in the larger context of the socialist state redistributive economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMayfair Yang is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eSpaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 9.16 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 16, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42131399606407,"sku":"9780801495922","price":71.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ea83dd57bdc95ab8c8f2c1c9b41e6d16.webp?v=1732618640","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/gifts-favors-and-banquets-sound-and-performance-from-the-1920s-to-the-present-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}