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

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

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Author/Contributor(s): Yang, Mayfair Mei-Hui
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date: 08/16/1994
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW

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...