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Drink water, but remember the source : moral discourse in a Chinese village / Ellen Oxfeld.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oxfeld, Ellen, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Village communities--Moral and ethical aspects--China--Meixian Shi.
- Village communities.
- Country life--Moral and ethical aspects--China--Meixian Shi.
- Country life.
- Conduct of life.
- Country life--Moral and ethical aspects--Meixian Shi--China.
- Meixian Shi (China)--Moral conditions.
- Meixian Shi (China).
- Meixian Shi (China)--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 292 p. ) ill., maps ;
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study explores the moral sphere as a key to understanding how rural Chinese experience and talk about their lives in a period of rapid economic transformation.
- Contents:
- Moonshadow pond: moral expectations and daily life
- Liangxin
- Weighty expectations: women and family virtue
- Everlasting debts
- The moral dilemmas of return visits
- Property rights and wrongs
- "Money causes trouble"
- Conclusion: ethnography and morality.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-94587-5
- OCLC:
- 808601064
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