Practices of guanxi production and practices of ganqing avoidance / Andrew Kipnis -- Information asymmetries and the problem of perception: the significance of structural position in assessing the importance of guanxi in China / Doug Guthrie -- Beyond dyadic social exchange: guanxi and third-party effects / Yi-min Lin -- Guanxi in business groups: social ties and the formation of economic relations / Lisa A. Keister -- Business-state clientelism in China: decline or evolution? / David Wank -- Institutional holes and job mobility processes: guanxi mechanisms in China's emergent labor markets / Yanjie Bian -- Youth job searches in urban China: the use of social connections in a changing labor market / Amy Hanser -- Face, norms, and instrumentality / Scott Wilson -- Guanxi and the PRC legal system: from contradiction to complementarity / Pitman B. Potter -- "Idle talk": neighborhood gossip as a medium of social communication in reform era Shanghai / James Furrrer -- Networking guanxi / Barry Wellman, Wenhong Chen, and Doug Weizhen
Summary
Guanxi (social networks) is among the most important and studied phenomena in China today. In this volume, the editors bring together many of the top scholars of guanxi to present a dynamic view of the role of social networks in Chinese society
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-272) and index
