Yunxiang Yan is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Policy and Social Development, Fudan University, China. He is the author of Te Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village (Stanford University Press, 1996), Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949–1999 (Stanford University Press, 2003) and The Individualization of Chinese Society (Berg, 2009). His research interests include family and kinship, social change, the individual and individualization, and moral changes in post-Mao China.
Gift-giving is a classic topic in anthropology, where on-going debates involve the principle of reciprocity, the spirit of the gift, and the relationship between gifts and commodities. In this study, the author examines the gift-giving and related social activities that pervade daily life in China, focusing on routine activities - visits between relatives, exchanges of food and labour between neighbours, gift-giving between friends - while not ignoring such special occasions as weddings and funerals. He constructs a classification of exchange behaviour in village society, examining the items of presentation, the types of gift-giving activities, and the hierarchical arrangement of givers and receivers. He also presents new interpretations of key concepts involved in Chinese gift-giving: guanxi (social networks), renqing (norms of interpersonal behaviour), mianzi (face), and bao (reciprocity). The book concludes by showing how the village gift economy has adjusted and survived in response to the radical social changes engendered by four decades of socialism.
重新编辑一下书评,因为今天一件关于礼物流动的事情深深的触动了我,在此聊以记录。 我妈的亲姐姐(二姨)得孙,吃酒席是要顺彩礼的,妈妈本打算上账500,(因为二姨也曾顺500彩礼给我家喜事),但是大姨在未和其他姊妹商量的情况下上账了1000,抹不开面子妈妈也只好又补了500...
評分关于礼物,想到两个事情,其一是当我拒绝去给某一亲戚送礼时而遭到的白眼以及“不懂礼”的评价;其二是某县政府门口有一家烟酒店,送礼者在这里买东西送给相关领导,而同时县领导会定期将自己收到的烟酒在这里折现。这两个事情正好代表了礼物流动中的不同模式,从方向上而言分...
評分本书的优秀之处在于结构清晰、内容夯实、语言优美和相关理论对话密切,并提供了创新之处。 在读这本书的时候,我意识到了作者们如何在第一章节为自己的研究增添光彩,逐个从各个维度论证本研究的重要性和重要意义。从这个角度上说,以礼物为媒介,作者其实还是在谈关系、人情、...
評分我观察过周围的很多中国人,学问对于他们来说是一件不可思议的事情。读书多的人经常会被贴上一个标签,叫“书呆子”,或者经常会被调侃“书读傻了”。我想这大概是基于这些人对学问的一种功利的看法,在很多中国人的价值标准里,干能产生地位或者经济利益的事情才是正确的。所...
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评分1993 Yan Yunxiang 在哈佛做的博士論文。
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评分關係的禮物運作
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