Everyday Guanxi Production In 1988-9o Fengjia, every time one asked for or granted a favor. xpressed sympathy, or called on a friend-that is, every time one invoked guanxi to achieve something in the world-one cally re-created that guanxi. Thus, in addition to the elaborate orga nization of guanxi production on ritual occasions, Fengjia residents (re)produced guanxi in their daily lives. Indeed, many of the techniques of ritual guanxi production-labor exchange, the use of kinship names the embodiment of ganging-came from everyday activity. After a brief introduction to a local typology of interpersonal relationships. this hapter examines the everyday techniques of guanxi production. Types of Guanxi In 1988-go Fengjia, most residents recognized four basic categories of endly relationships: family members(benjiaren), relatives(qinqi), fel low villagers (xiangqin)and friends(pengyou). These categories over lapped, and the same person(even within the same relationship) could stances. Family members certainly included all those who lived togethe as one economic unit. Following village administrative categories, I refer to such units as households (hu). Depending on context, mem bers of agnatically related households might also be considered family members, However, such agnates could also count as fellow villagers xiangqin). The flexibility of the term"family member"and the impor ance of the category "fellow villager: which included households of different surnames, refiected the near absence of formal lineage organi Afines were usually referred to as"relatives"(qinqi), a term em bracing three major categories: mother's sister's family (yiyi jia) father's sister's family (gugu jia), and mother's mother's family (laolao