Anthropology of ascendant China: histories, attainments, and tribulations
In: Anthropology of now
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In: The Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture
GIFTS, FAVORS, AND BANQUETS -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fieldwork, Politics, and Modernity in China -- The ""Discovery"" of Guanxixue -- Guanxixue as an Object of Study -- Fieldwork in a Culture of Fear -- The Subject-Position of the Anthropologist -- State Projects of Modernity in China and Native Critiques -- Part I: An Ethnography of Micropolitics in a Socialist Setting -- 1. Guanxi Dialects and Vocabulary -- Popular Discourse -- Official Discourse -- Key Words and Concepts of Guanxixue in Popular Discourse -- 2. The Scope and Use-Contexts of Guanxi
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 119, Heft 2, S. 378-379
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Theory, culture & society: explorations in critical social science, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 3-44
ISSN: 1460-3616
In the long 20th century, modern China experienced perhaps the world's most radical and systematic secularization process and the decimation of traditional religious and ritual cultures. This article seeks to account for this experience by engaging with postcolonial theory, a body of discourse seldom found relevant to China Studies. The article attempts a two-pronged critique of both state secularization and some aspects of existing Postcolonial Studies/theory. It shows the many ways in which nationalist elites in modern China unwittingly absorbed Western Orientalist discourse even as their words and actions were ostensibly anti-colonial, and much of the article examines the consequences of this native Orientalism upon Chinese religiosities. Finally, the article suggests that one cannot discuss governmentality in modern China without understanding how it is intertwined with a sovereign power that is both archaic and, at the same time, has experienced renewal and expansion in modernity.
In: Religion und Politik in der Volksrepublik China, S. 361-390
In: Public culture, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 209-238
ISSN: 1527-8018
Mayfair Mei-hui Yang teaches in the anthropology and religious studies departments at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is working on a book manuscript titled "Re-Enchanting Modernity:Sovereignty, Popular Rituals, and Indigenous Civil Society in Coastal China."
This essay examines complex interactions among the nation-state, popular religion, media capitalism, and gendered territorialization as these are inflected across the Taiwan Strait. Relations across the strait have been fraught with political tension and military preparations over the question of whether taiwan is part of China or an independent state. Since the 1999 presidential elections in Taiwan, the new government there has been more vociferous about Taiwan independence, and mainland China's Communist Party has responded with more vigorous claims on Taiwan, including the launching of a warning missile over the island. Under these conditions, it is all the more remarkable that in recent years there has been an increasing number of religious pilgrimages and exchanges across the strait, and that, in 2000, one such pilgrimage by Taiwanese worshippers of the maritime goddess Mazu to her natal home in Fujian Province was broadcast live from China back to Taiwan via satellite television.
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In: The China quarterly, Band 170, S. 459-476
ISSN: 1468-2648
In addressing claims that the art of guanxi is declining in China's current incorporation of capitalism, this article argues that guanxi must be treated historically as a repertoire of cultural patterns and resources which are continuously transformed in their adaptation to, as well as shaping of, new social institutions and structures, and by the particular Chinese experience with globalization. The article takes issue with approaches which treat guanxi as a fixed essentialized phenomenon which can only wither away with the onslaught of new legal and commercial regimes. Rather, as the examples of Taiwan and post-socialist Russia's encounter with capitalism suggest, guanxi practice may decline in some social domains, but find new areas to flourish, such as business transactions, and display new social forms and expressions. This historical approach to guanxi, which is sensitive to issues of power both within the Chinese social order and between China and the West, is especially critical of the unreflective positivist methodology and the teleology of modernization theory/narrative and neo-liberal discourse embedded in the argument for the decline of guanxi.
In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Heft 170, S. 459-476
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
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In: Current anthropology, Band 41, Heft 4, S. 477
ISSN: 1537-5382
In: Public Culture, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 297-313
ISSN: 1527-8018
In: The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, Band 22, S. 31-60
In: Comparative studies in society and history, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 25-54
ISSN: 1475-2999
The state apparatus in China today has taken upon itself almost total responsibility for administering the social and economic domain. The welfare and control of the population, the organization of production, planning all social activities, and the distribution of the means of subsistence have become primary concerns of organs of the state. The types of power relationships and their social and symbolic expressions, which have crystallized around the distribution and circulation of desirables in such a political economy, are the subject of the present study. The study will also examine how certain counter-techniques of power deviate from the larger strategy of power exercised through the state socialist political economy, forming pockets of intransigence from within.
In: ProtoSociology: an international journal of interdisciplinary research, Band 26, S. 169-191
ISSN: 1611-1281
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 200
ISSN: 1467-9655