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Soup, Love, and a Helping Hand

Social Relations and Support in Guangzhou, China

By: Friederike Fleischer

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Soup, Love, and a Helping Hand

Social Relations and Support in Guangzhou, China

By: 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.

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194

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Berghahn Books

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ISBN 10

1785336770

ISBN 13

9781785336775

Ethnographies of Social Support

By: Markus Schlecker,Friederike Fleischer

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Ethnographies of Social Support

By: Markus Schlecker,Friederike Fleischer

Why do elderly choose to move away from their children so as to not receive their support? Using a number of case studies, contributors explore social support as a tool of mutuality, or maintaining relatedness and sharing feelings, rather than preventing or patching up problems. This book helps correct the dominant framework of deliberate action.

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