An introduction to the study of guanxi Thomas Gold, Doug Guthrie and David
Wank; 1. Practices of guanxi production and practices of ganqing
suppression Andrew Kipnis; 2. Information asymmetries and the problems of
perception: the significance of structural position in assessing the
importance of guanxi Doug Guthrie; 3. Beyond dyad social exchange: guanxi
and third party effects Lin Yimin; 4. Guanxi in business groups: social
ties and the formation of economic relations Lisa Keister; 5. The
significance of the declining significance of guanxi: how networks change
in China's market economy David Wank; 6. Institutional holes and job
mobility processes: guanxi mechanisms in China's emergent labor markets
Yanjie Bian; 7. Youth job searches in urban China: the use of social
connections in a changing labor market Amy Hanser; 8. Face, norms, and
instrumentality Scott Wilson; 9. Guanxi and the PRC legal system: from
contradiction to complementarity Pitman Potter; 10. 'Idle talk':
neighborhood gossip as a medium of social communication in reform era
Shanghai James Farrer; Final insights: network analysis and the study of
guanxi Barry Wellman, Wenhong Chen and Weizhen Dong.
