Michael B Griffiths
Biographic Data
| ID | 659694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael B Griffiths |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael B |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffiths |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFITHS M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | King’s Business School, King’s College London, London, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Chinese intimacies & consumer-culture-brand relations
Two Western culture-inflected paradigms of intimacy dominate scholarship in the marketing and consumer behaviour disciplines: intimacy as interior-secrets-revealed and intimacy as knowledge-which-accumulates. This article decentres these concepts by exploring how intimacies in China emerge in complex co-created ways, from contextual settings, from the local construction of space and place, through kinship and its extensions, through ritual and em…
Bittersweet China
This paper argues that new interpretations of “eating bitterness” ([Formula: see text], chiku) have firmly entered the landscape of China's social organisation. Whereas the bitterness eaten by heroic types in China's revolutionary past was directed towards serving others, now the aim of eating bitterness is self-awareness. Furthermore, bitterness-eating, which once pertained to rural-urban migrant workers as opposed to discourses of urban “qualit…
Lamb Buddha's Migrant Workers
This paper presents an analysis of the everyday practices of individuality among the migrant workers with whom I worked at “Lamb Buddha”, a hotpot restaurant in Anshan City, Liaoning Province, during the summer of 2007. The majority of the data comes from four young men, meaning that the analysis complements extant studies of Chinese female migrant workers by allowing male-gendered inflections of discourse prominence. The paper examines the inter…
Chinese consumers
Drawing on evidence from Anshan City, Liaoning Province, the People's Republic of China, we argue that the recent commodification and proliferation of idyllicized representations of rurality, a trend that runs directly counter to the symbolic infrastructure of China's mass urbanization and industrialization, indicates a paradigm shift in Chinese consumer perceptions. We explore a theory of the 'Romantic reappraisal of Chinese consumer values', dr…
Chinese consumers
Drawing on evidence from Anshan City, Liaoning Province, the People's Republic of China, we argue that the recent commodification and proliferation of idyllicized representations of rurality, a trend that runs directly counter to the symbolic infrastructure of China's mass urbanization and industrialization, indicates a paradigm shift in Chinese consumer perceptions. We explore a theory of the 'Romantic reappraisal of Chinese consumer values', dr…
Bittersweet China
This paper argues that new interpretations of “eating bitterness” ([Formula: see text], chiku) have firmly entered the landscape of China's social organisation. Whereas the bitterness eaten by heroic types in China's revolutionary past was directed towards serving others, now the aim of eating bitterness is self-awareness. Furthermore, bitterness-eating, which once pertained to rural-urban migrant workers as opposed to discourses of urban “qualit…
Lamb Buddha's Migrant Workers
This paper presents an analysis of the everyday practices of individuality among the migrant workers with whom I worked at “Lamb Buddha”, a hotpot restaurant in Anshan City, Liaoning Province, during the summer of 2007. The majority of the data comes from four young men, meaning that the analysis complements extant studies of Chinese female migrant workers by allowing male-gendered inflections of discourse prominence. The paper examines the inter…
Lamb Buddha's Migrant Workers
This paper presents an analysis of the everyday practices of individuality among the migrant workers with whom I worked at “Lamb Buddha”, a hotpot restaurant in Anshan City, Liaoning Province, during the summer of 2007. The majority of the data comes from four young men, meaning that the analysis complements extant studies of Chinese female migrant workers by allowing male-gendered inflections of discourse prominence. The paper examines the inter…
Chinese consumers
Drawing on evidence from Anshan City, Liaoning Province, the People's Republic of China, we argue that the recent commodification and proliferation of idyllicized representations of rurality, a trend that runs directly counter to the symbolic infrastructure of China's mass urbanization and industrialization, indicates a paradigm shift in Chinese consumer perceptions. We explore a theory of the 'Romantic reappraisal of Chinese consumer values', dr…
Bittersweet China
This paper argues that new interpretations of “eating bitterness” ([Formula: see text], chiku) have firmly entered the landscape of China's social organisation. Whereas the bitterness eaten by heroic types in China's revolutionary past was directed towards serving others, now the aim of eating bitterness is self-awareness. Furthermore, bitterness-eating, which once pertained to rural-urban migrant workers as opposed to discourses of urban “qualit…
Chinese intimacies & consumer-culture-brand relations
Two Western culture-inflected paradigms of intimacy dominate scholarship in the marketing and consumer behaviour disciplines: intimacy as interior-secrets-revealed and intimacy as knowledge-which-accumulates. This article decentres these concepts by exploring how intimacies in China emerge in complex co-created ways, from contextual settings, from the local construction of space and place, through kinship and its extensions, through ritual and em…
Sociology (4 works) · China (3 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Economics (2 works)