Drink water, but remember the source
Subtitle: moral discourse in a Chinese village
By: Ellen Oxfeld
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780520260948; 9780520260955
Subjects: Social conditions; Moral conditions; Conduct of life; Country life; Village communities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: Moonshadow pond: moral expectations and daily life; title: Liangxin; title: Weighty expectations: women and family virtue; title: Everlasting debts; title: The moral dilemmas of return visits; title: Property rights and wrongs; title: "Money causes trouble"; title: Conclusion: ethnography and morality.