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The Gift Economy and State Power in China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang
Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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The state apparatus in China today has taken upon itself almost total responsibility for administering the social and economic domain. The welfare and control of the population, the organization of production, planning all social activities, and the distribution of the means of subsistence have become primary concerns of organs of the state. The types of power relationships and their social and symbolic expressions, which have crystallized around the distribution and circulation of desirables in such a political economy, are the subject of the present study. The study will also examine how certain counter-techniques of power deviate from the larger strategy of power exercised through the state socialist political economy, forming pockets of intransigence from within.

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The Unexpected Origins of Social Policy
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , January 1989 , pp. 25 - 54
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1989

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