Drink water, but remember the source : moral discourse in a Chinese village / [electronic resource]
Oxfeld, Ellen,1953-
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c2010.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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.
Description based on print version record.
Village communities
Country life
Conduct of life.
Village communities
Country life
Conduct of life
Sociology & Social History
Social Sciences
Social Conditions