Communities Of Complicity Everyday Ethics In Rural China

Description:

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 with targeted theoretical analyses, the author examines how ordinary people construct their own senses of their lives and their futures in.

subjects: Rural life,  Social life and customs,  Social ethics,  Country life, china,  China, social life and customs,  Country life,  Farm life,  Outdoor life,  Rural conditions