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"This is one of the more intriguing books on management in China to be published in the last few years. ... a fascinating account with many insights."--Morgen Witzel, Human Systems Management
"The author, who has a Ph.D. from Oxford, researched at Harvard and taught at Beijing University amongst other places, has carried out an extensive survey of this new phenomenon and has done it with analytical rigour. He knows China well and has written an authoritative work that represents a serious contribution to the field."--Malcolm Warner, Journal of General Management

The charismatic author of Reflections of the Moon on Water brings her years of experience in the healing wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine to show how Western women can achieve lifelong health, beauty and wellness.

Breaking new ground in the study of Chinese urban society, this book applies critical discourse analysis to ethnographic data gathered in Anshan, a third-tier city and market in northeast China. The book confronts the - still widespread - notion that Chinese consumers are not "real" individuals, and in doing so represents an ambitious attempt to give a new twist to the structure versus agency debates in social theory. To this end, Michael B. Griffiths shows how claims to virtues such as authenticity, knowledge, civility, sociable character, moral proprietary and self-cultivation emerge from and give shape to social interaction. Data material for this path-breaking analysis is drawn from informants as diverse as consumerist youths, dissident intellectuals, enterprising farmers, retired Party cadres, the rural migrant staff of an inner-city restaurant, the urban families dependent on a machine-repair workshop, and a range of white-collar professionals.