Friederike Fleischer is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. She was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany. She is the author of Surburban Beijing (2010), and co-editor of Ethnographies of Support (2013).

"This excellent monograph will be of great use to both scholars of contemporary China as well as to students at both graduate and undergraduate levels." * Ellen Oxfeld, Middlebury College

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsMapList of Main InterlocutorsIntroductionPART I: SOUPChapter 1. Neighbors and FriendsChapter 2. Support and ReciprocityPART II: LOVEChapter 3. Religious RevivalChapter 4. The Church: Social and Religious ServiceChapter 5. Love: A Community of BelieversPART III: A HELPING HANDChapter 6. Philanthropy, Charity, and VolunteerismChapter 7. Inspirations and Motivations to VolunteerChapter 8. Volunteering: Governmentality and AgencyConclusionReferences

Friederike Fleischer is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. She was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany. She is the author of Surburban Beijing (2010), and co-editor of Ethnographies of Support (2013).

"This excellent monograph will be of great use to both scholars of contemporary China as well as to students at both graduate and undergraduate levels." * Ellen Oxfeld, Middlebury College

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsMapList of Main InterlocutorsIntroductionPART I: SOUPChapter 1. Neighbors and FriendsChapter 2. Support and ReciprocityPART II: LOVEChapter 3. Religious RevivalChapter 4. The Church: Social and Religious ServiceChapter 5. Love: A Community of BelieversPART III: A HELPING HANDChapter 6. Philanthropy, Charity, and VolunteerismChapter 7. Inspirations and Motivations to VolunteerChapter 8. Volunteering: Governmentality and AgencyConclusionReferences

Friederike Fleischer is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. She was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany. She is the author of Surburban Beijing (2010), and co-editor of Ethnographies of Support (2013).

"This excellent monograph will be of great use to both scholars of contemporary China as well as to students at both graduate and undergraduate levels." * Ellen Oxfeld, Middlebury College

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsMapList of Main InterlocutorsIntroductionPART I: SOUPChapter 1. Neighbors and FriendsChapter 2. Support and ReciprocityPART II: LOVEChapter 3. Religious RevivalChapter 4. The Church: Social and Religious ServiceChapter 5. Love: A Community of BelieversPART III: A HELPING HANDChapter 6. Philanthropy, Charity, and VolunteerismChapter 7. Inspirations and Motivations to VolunteerChapter 8. Volunteering: Governmentality and AgencyConclusionReferences