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Communities of complicity : everyday ethics in rural China / Hans Steinmüller.

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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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Steinmüller, Hans
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Series:Dislocations ; v. 10.
Subjects:
Country life > China > Zhongba (Enshi Shi, Hubei Sheng)
Social ethics > China > Zhongba (Enshi Shi, Hubei Sheng)
Zhongba (Enshi Shi, Hubei Sheng, China) > Social life and customs.
Country life.
Manners and customs.
Social ethics.
Table of 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.

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