Soup, Love, and a Helping Hand : : Social Relations and Support in Guangzhou, China / / Friederike Fleischer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Fleischer, Friederike,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Asian Anthropologies ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; MAP OF CHINA --; MAIN INTERLOCUTORS AND THEIR FAMILIES --; INTRODUCTION --; PART I Soup --; 1 “IF NOT HIS CHILD, WHO WILL PAY FOR HIS LIVING?” Household and Kin-Based Support --; 2 NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS --; 3 SUPPORT AND RECIPROCITY --; PART II Love --; 4 RELIGIOUS REVIVAL --; 5 THE CHURCH Social and Religious Services --; 6 LOVE A Community of Believers --; PART III A Helping Hand --; 7 PHILANTHROPY, CHARITY, AND VOLUNTEERISM --; 8 INSPIRATIONS AND MOTIVATIONS TO VOLUNTEER --; 9 VOLUNTEERING Governmentality and Agency --; CONCLUSION Soup, Love, and a Helping Hand Urban Transformations and the Ethics of Social Support --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785336775; 9783110998115
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785336775?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Friederike Fleischer.

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.