Social Connections in China (eBook, PDF)

Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi
Redaktion: Gold, Thomas

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Produktbeschreibung

Guanxi, translated as 'social connections,' or 'social networks,' is among the most important studied phenomena in China today. Guanxi lies at the heart of China's social order, its economic structure, and its changing institutional landscape. It is considered important in every realm of life, from politics to business, and officialdom to street life. This volume offers scholarly thinking on the subject by top China sociologists whose work on guanxi has been influential and by scholars offering insights on the topic. The authors examine the role of guanxi in: business decisions among managers and entrepreneurs; the decisions and practices of workers; the construction of new legal institutions; the new social order. Scholars and students of China will find this a rich source of detailed information on the workings of Chinese social relationships and a valuable, new interpretation of the meaning and place of guanxi today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511029998
• Artikelnr.: 38215631

Inhaltsangabe

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.