The Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture
Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-359) and index.
Guanxixue and Chinese Culture. The Postrevolutionary Decline and Rise of Guanxixue. From "Use-Value" to "Exchange-Value": The Entrance of Market Forces. The Art of Guanxi Does Not Retreat -- 5. The Political Economy of Gift Relations. The Techniques of Power in the State Redistributive Economy. Countertechniques in the Gift Economy. Propositions -- 6. "Using the Past to Negate the Present": Ritual Ethics and State Rationality in Ancient China. "Criticize Lin Biao, Criticize Confucius" A Reinterpretation of the Past -- 7. The Cult of Mao, Guanxi Subjects, and the Return of the Individual. A Sweep of Red: State Subjects and the Cult of Mao. The Return of the Individual Subject. Guanxi Subjectivity of Addition and Subtraction -- 8. Rhizomatic Networks and the Fabric of an Emerging Minjian in China. In-between the Individual and Society. In-between the Individual and Groups or Associations. Rhizomatic Kinship and Guanxi Polity: From Guanxi Networks to a Minjian -- Conclusion: Back to the Source.
Introduction: Fieldwork, Politics, and Modernity in China. The "Discovery" of Guanxixue. Guanxixue as an Object of Study. Fieldwork in a Culture of Fear. The Subject-Position of the Anthropologist. State Projects of Modernity in China and Native Critiques -- 1. Guanxi Dialects and Vocabulary. Popular Discourse. Official Discourse. Key Words and Concepts of Guanxixue in Popular Discourse -- 2. The Scope and Use-Contexts of Guanxi. The City and the Countryside. The Gender Dimension. Urban Occupational Strata. The Variety of Use-Contexts. A Society of Gatekeepers. Corporate and Administrative Uses -- 3. The "Art" in Guanxixue: Ethics, Tactics, and Etiquette. Guanxi Bases: Kinship, Friendship, and Other Personal Relations. Affective Sentiments: Yiqi, Ganqing, and Renqing. Enlarging a Guanxi Network. The Tactic, Obligation, and Form of Giving and Receiving. The Obligation to Repay -- 4. On the Recent Past of Guanxixue: Traditional Forms and Historical (Re- )Emergence. Three Official Histories.
The Female Supple Force of Exchange. Ritual as a Self-organizing Vehicle of the Minjian. Renqing over Guanxi.