Friederike Fleischer

Soup, Love, and a Helping Hand (eBook, ePUB)

Social Relations and Support in Guangzhou, China

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Despite growing affluence, a large number of urban Chinese have problems making ends meet. Based on ethnographic research among several different types of communities in Guangzhou, China, Soup, Love and a Helping Hand examines different modes and ideologies of help/support, as well as the related issues of reciprocity, relatedness (kinship), and changing state-society relations in contemporary China. With an emphasis on the subjective experience, Fleischer's research carefully explores people's ideas about moral obligations, social expectations, and visions of urban Chinese society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785336775
• Artikelnr.: 49741297

Autorenporträt

Friederike Fleischer is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. She was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany. She is the author of Surburban Beijing (2010), and co-editor of Ethnographies of Support (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Map
List of Main Interlocutors
Introduction
PART I: SOUP
Chapter 1. "If Not His Child, Who Will Pay for His Living?": Household and
Kin-Based Support
Chapter 2. Neighbors and Friends
Chapter 3. Support and Reciprocity
PART II: LOVE
Chapter 4. Religious Revival
Chapter 5. The Church: Social and Religious Services
Chapter 6. Love: A Community of Believers
PART III: A HELPING HAND
Chapter 7. Philanthropy, Charity, and Volunteerism
Chapter 8. Inspirations and Motivations to Volunteer
Chapter 9. Volunteering: Governmentality and Agency
Conclusion: Soup, Love, and a Helping Hand: Urban Transformations and the
Ethics of Social Support
Bibliography
Index