Communities of Complicity: Everyday Ethics in Rural China

by Hans Steinmeuller and Hans Steinmüller

Everyday life in contemporary rural China is characterized by an increased sense of moral challenge and uncertainty. Ordinary people often find themselves caught between the moral frameworks of capitalism, Maoism and the Chinese tradition. This ethnographic study of the village of Zhongba (in Hubei Province, central China) is an attempt to grasp the ethical reflexivity of everyday life in rural China. Drawing on descriptions of village life, interspersed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857458906
• ISBN13: 9780857458902
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"