Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality Among China's New RichStanford University Press, 3 d’abr. 2013 - 248 pàgines An ethnographic study of China’s new elites and their rarified world of debauchery and corruption: “A must have book for China studies” (Choice). This pioneering investigation reveals the private lives—and the nightlives—of the powerful entrepreneurs and managers redefining success and status in the Chinese city of Chengdu. For more than three years, anthropologist John Osburg accompanied wealthy Chinese businessmen as they courted clients, partners, and government officials. Now he invites readers along on his journey through the highly gendered world of luxury karaoke clubs, saunas, and massage parlors—places designed to cater to the desires 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. Yet underneath the façade, many entrepreneurs feel trapped by their obligations and moral compromises in this evolving environment. 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. |
Continguts
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Masculinity Sexuality and alliances Among Chengdus Entrepreneurs
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Elite Networks and Corruption in Contemporary China | 76 |
Consumption Status and Recognition Among Chengdus Elite | 113 |
Sexuality Morality and Wealth | 143 |
Elite Networks and Public Morality | 183 |
Notes | 193 |
Glossary | 211 |
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