The state through its mirrors : an anthropological study of a 'Respect-the-Elderly Home' in rural China at the turn of the 21st century

This thesis represents an endeavour to study and rethink bureaucracy through an ethnography of the bureaucratic organisation called ‘Respect-the-Elderly Home’ (REH) in rural China in the first decade of the 21st century. Its contextual concern is to examine the phenomenon of old age support being tr...

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Main Author: Liu, Xiaoqian
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658139

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