Soup, Love, and a Helping Hand
Subtitle: Social Relations and Support in Guangzhou, China
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781785336553
Subjects: Sociology, urban; China, social conditions
Description: 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.