Gifts, Favors, and Banquets : the Art of Social Relationships in China.
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 tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business--all s...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2016.
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Series: | Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture.
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