图书标签: 人类学 海外中国研究 中国 当代中国 社会学 anthropology 民族志 社会史
发表于2025-01-22
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Who exactly are China's new rich? This pioneering investigation introduces readers to the private lives—and the nightlives—of the powerful entrepreneurs and managers redefining success and status in the city of Chengdu. Over the course of more than three years, anthropologist John Osburg accompanied, and in some instances assisted, wealthy Chinese businessmen as they courted clients, partners, and government officials.
Drawing on his immersive experiences, Osburg invites readers to join him as he journeys through the new, highly gendered entertainment sites for Chinese businessmen, including karaoke clubs, saunas, and massage parlors—places specifically designed to cater to the desires and enjoyment of elite men. Within these spaces, a masculinization of business is taking place. Osburg details the complex code of behavior that governs businessmen as they go about banqueting, drinking, gambling, bribing, exchanging gifts, and obtaining sexual services.
These intricate social networks play a key role in generating business, performing social status, and reconfiguring gender roles. But many entrepreneurs feel trapped by their obligations and moral compromises in this evolving environment. Ultimately, Osburg examines their deep ambivalence about China's future and their own complicity in the major issues of post-Mao Chinese society—corruption, inequality, materialism, and loss of trust.
John Osburg is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Rochester.
读了intro, 描述基本符合实情,面向西方读者因而细节翔实。
评分寫得還是相當不錯的,材料很豐富,對於中國語境下的術語和概念,理解得蠻精確的。將「新富」群體放在傳統的「關係」以及晚近的「ethics and morality」概念下談,出發點蠻好的,但是整體的討論顯得非常散,不曉得為什麼。。。
评分高开低走!作者好奇心和耐心都欠缺
评分补标,今天重见小时候做噩梦的油腻猪头们想起这本书。成都官商关系实录,ktv是试验场。但对贿赂的描述没涉及土地权的实质,搞得好像是双方道德问题:)
评分比博士论文做了不少改动。材料还比较丰富,讨论散。。
Osburg’s approach that heavily relies on the case studies recorded from ethnographic fieldwork has rendered the volume reader-friendly in a novel-like style, however at the finance of being less convincing and critical theoretically. The extensive ethnogra...
评分敢于这样的尝试,至少让我们从文字上感知,作者官网,可适读http://www.sup.org/books/extra/?id=21527&i=Excerpt_from_the_Introduction_pages
评分Osburg’s approach that heavily relies on the case studies recorded from ethnographic fieldwork has rendered the volume reader-friendly in a novel-like style, however at the finance of being less convincing and critical theoretically. The extensive ethnogra...
评分花了近一个月的时间看完了这本书,读完才发现原来在身边习以为常的明/潜规则的成因是这样复杂隐晦又因国情而独特。官僚、商人、服务性行业从业者各有各的光鲜及苦衷,抱着各自的目的,结自己的关系网,用或卑劣或或精妙的手段追寻荣华富贵。 书中让我深有感触的还是女性的不易...
评分敢于这样的尝试,至少让我们从文字上感知,作者官网,可适读http://www.sup.org/books/extra/?id=21527&i=Excerpt_from_the_Introduction_pages
Anxious Wealth pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025