 | Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China Subjects: Social interaction -- China; Social networks -- China; Gifts -- China; lndividualism -- China; Communism and individualism -- China; Civil society -- China; China -- Politics and government; 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... Mayfair 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 Spaces of Their Own: Women's Public Sphere in Transnational China . |
