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| Document Type(s): | Book |
| Book Title: | Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China |
| Author(s): | Yang, Mayfair |
| Religion(s): | Taoism |
| Publisher Name: | Cornell University Press |
| Place of Publication: | Ithaca, N.Y. |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 |
| Annotation: | Yang presents the practice of guanzi (a relationship) between objects, forces, or as her fieldwork demonstrates, persons. It is a “gift economy” that has effectively subverted the socialism of Maoist China and upholds a civil society embedded culturally in a redistributive economy. Describing guanzi’s scope and use as well as its contexts, ethics, tactics, and etiquette, Yang suggests that this practice challenges state-centered ideology with that of a subjectivity found in the “art of social relationships.” |
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