Table of Contents
About the Authors v
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.1 Outline of the Contents 2
Chapter 2 Anthropology of China: History, Regionalism, and Comparison 9
2.1 Anthropology's Crisis of Representation 11
2.2 Ethnographic Authority and the Regionalization of Anthropology 14
2.3 Revolution and Reform in the Anthropology of China 17
2.4 Regionalization from a Chinese Perspective 21
2.5 Fei and the Study of Chinese Society 24
2.6 Fei's Non-western Sociological Theory of China 26
2.7 Moral Crisis and Individual Ethics 31
2.8 China in a Changing World 35
Chapter 3 Kinship as Ideology and as Corporation 39
3.1 Developing Cognition between Individual and Ideology 40
3.2 Chinese Kinship from Family to Lineage 47
3.3 Changes from above: The Role of Neo-Confucian Ideologues 53
3.4 Bottom-up Rites as Drivers of Change 56
3.5 The State, Laws, and Taxes in Kinship as Patricorporation 61
3.6 Development of Historical Consciousness 65
3.7 Conclusion 68
Chapter 4 Relatedness and Gender 71
4.1 From Kinship to Relatedness 72
4.2 Nurturing Reciprocity 78
4.3 Engendering Desire 82
4.4 Families Women Create 85
4.5 Migration and Gendered Spaces 88
4.6 Family Planning 90
4.7 From Holism to Partial Processes 95
Chapter 5 Love, Emotion and Sentiment 99
5.1 Love as Transcendence of the Self 100
5.2 Love as Knowledge Revealed and Concealed 101
5.3 How Structural is Love in China? 103
5.4 Expressing Emotion through Action and Words 105
5.5 Love between Passion and Affection 107
5.6 The Romantic Revolution 108
5.7 Romantic Scripts, Sex, and the City 110
5.8 Affection and Dependence between Parents and Children 113
5.9 Patriotism as Love Extended 115
5.10 Love and Emotion in China 116
Chapter 6 The Exchange of Money, Gifts, and Favors 119
6.1 Money and the Morality of Exchange 120
6.2 Money in Chinese History 123
6.3 Rural Relationships 130
6.4 Urban Connections 132
6.5 Status, Merit, and Self-Interest 133
6.6 Elite Networks 135
6.7 Kinship and Property 137
6.8 Conclusion 139
Chapter 7 The Localization and Globalization of Food 143
7.1 Chinese Cooking and Cuisines in Comparison 144
7.2 National Cuisines on a Global Stage 146
7.3 Chinese Food as World Cuisine 150
7.4 The Generation Gap at the Table 153
7.5 Inside and Outside Culinary Principles 156
7.6 Localism from Cooking to Cuisine 158
7.7 Consumer Culture and Corporate Food 160
7.8 Faith, Food, and Identity 164
7.9 Eating Modernity and Consuming Exoticism 166
Chapter 8 Nature, Environment, and Activism 171
8.1 The Dualism of Nature and Culture 173
8.2 Globalizing Nature in China and Taiwan 176
8.3 Social Justice in Environmental Protest 180
8.4 Compensation for Industrial Pollution 183
8.5 Reason and Law in Rural Resource Management 184
8.6 Global Environmentalism and fengshui 186
8.7 Social Harmony Beyond Nature-Culture Dualism 188
Chapter 9 Ritual and Belief 191
9.1 Government by Rite 192
9.2 Ritual and Ideology 193
9.3 Belief and Ritual Practice: Orthodoxy and Orthopraxy 198
9.4 So, are We Actually Talking about the Influence of Writing and a State? 200
9.5 Liberal Modernity, Ritual and the Cult of Sincerity 203
9.6 Maoist Political Ritual 204
9.7 Funerals Post-Mao 207
Chapter 10 Hospitality 213
10.1 The Constraint to Share and Be Generous: The Basis of Civilization 213
10.2 Altruism: The Impossible Gift on the Ultimate Scale of Humanity 215
10.3 An Anthropological Study of Hospitality 216
10.4 Imperial Chinese Guest Ritual 217
10.5 Chinese Anthropologies of Hospitality 220
10.6 Guest as a Parasite; Host as a Poisoner 222
10.7 Hosting Gods, Ghosts and Other Guests 223
Chapter 11 The Stranger-King and the Outside of an Imperial Civilization 227
11.1 The Theme of the Stranger-King 228
11.2 Heteronomy 230
11.3 The Outside of Tianxia - All Under Heaven 232
11.4 Ethnography of a Border Region 235
11.5 The Wild: Another View of the Center from the Margin 239
11.6 Conclusion 241
Chapter 12 The Anthropology of the Modern State in China 243
12.1 Some Benchmark Characteristics of Modern States 246
12.2 China's Formation as an East Asian State 247
12.3 Not Fleeing but Keeping a Negotiable Distance: Local Cultures in the PRC 249
12.4 Further Cases of Cultural Distancing and Cultural Incorporation 252
12.5 The Bai of Dali and their Culture in the New Dispensation 254
12.6 The Villages of Bashan in Enshi 257
12.7 An Indisputably Han Local Study 260
12.8 Conclusion 261
Chapter 13 Conclusion 263
Index 269
