| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations |
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Dislocations ; v. 10 |
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Dislocations ; v. 10.
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| Contents |
A remote place from three angles -- Gabled roofs and concrete ceilings -- Work through the food basket -- Channelling along a centring path -- The embarrassment of Li -- Gambling and the moving boundaries of social heat -- Face projects in rural construction -- Everyday ethics, cultural intimacy, and irony |
| Summary |
Everyday life in contemporary rural China is characterized by an increased sense of moral challenge and uncertainty. Ordinary people often find themselves caught between the moral frameworks of capitalism, Maoism and the Chinese tradition. This ethnographic study of the village of Zhongba (in Hubei Province, central China) is an attempt to grasp the ethical reflexivity of everyday life in rural China. Drawing on descriptions of village life, interspersed with targeted theoretical analyses, the author examines how ordinary people construct their own senses of their lives and their futures in |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index |
| Notes |
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| Subject |
Country life -- China -- Zhongba (Enshi Shi, Hubei Sheng)
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Social ethics -- China -- Zhongba (Enshi Shi, Hubei Sheng)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Country life
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Manners and customs
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Social ethics
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| SUBJECT |
Zhongba (Enshi Shi, Hubei Sheng, China) -- Social life and customs
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780857458919 |
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0857458914 |
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1299777686 |
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9781299777682 |
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