It takes the average reader 6 hours and 30 minutes to read Gifts, Favors, and Banquets by Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang
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An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business—all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of obligation, indebtedness, and reciprocity. Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's close scrutiny of this phenomenon serves as a window to view facets of a much broader and more complex cultural, historical, and political formation....
Gifts, Favors, and Banquets by Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang is 384 pages long, and a total of 97,536 words.
This makes it 130% the length of the average book. It also has 119% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 52 minutes to read Gifts, Favors, and Banquets aloud.
Gifts, Favors, and Banquets is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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