Soup, Love, and a Helping Hand : : Social Relations and Support in Guangzhou, China / / 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 is...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asian Anthropologies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (194 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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