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ISBN-10 :  0192536222 

ISBN-13 :  9780192536228

Author : Jack Barbalet 

The concept of guanxi is used extensively in Chinese society. Loosely understood as ‘connections’ or ‘networks’, it refers to long-term mutually reinforcing exchanges between individuals based on affective and normative commitments. This book comprehensively examines the nature and background of this extremely significant and distinct feature of Chinese social, political, economic, and business relations. It takes account of the major theoretical frameworks that relate to the long-term connections that are developed to pursue instrumental advantage in a society marked by relatively weak legal and regulatory institutions. The book locates such theorizing in the major features of the rapidly evolving Chinese market society. Yet it also pays attention to the historical origins and cultural sources of a highly particularistic approach to the acquisition of social and material resources — an approach which relies on obligatory relations of favour exchange between persons who self-consciously and strategically select their associates and goals. This sociological treatment of guanxi challenges many dominant conventions and introduces a novel research approach which captures the pertinent psychological dispositions, cultural expressions, and institutional frameworks that underpin the phenomenon.

The Theory of Guanxi and Chinese Society 1st Table of contents:

1. Making Guanxi
Making a Connection
Making the Connection Stick
Maintaining the Connection
The Efficiency of Guanxi
Conclusion
2. Traditional Rural Society: A Model for Guanxi?
Chinese Rural Society
Chaxugeju
Lineage
A Village-Centric View
Obligations of Role and Exchange
Non-Kin Relations through Ganqing
The Paradox of Self-Interest in Guanxi
Conclusion
3. Reciprocity in Chinese Traditions
Bao in Chinese Traditions
Shu and its Mistranslations
From Shu to Renqing
Conclusion
4. Renqing as Guanxi and in Guanxi
Renqing as Instrumental Particularism
Renqing from the Late Qing
Favour Exchange under Communism
Guanxi as Friendship, Chinese-Friendship
Conclusion
5. Trust in Guanxi
Trust in Networks
Trust in its Cultural Setting
Assurance and the Triadic Structure of Guanxi
Influence in Guanxi Ties
Conclusion
6. Guanxi, Three Forms or One
Family Guanxi
Fictive Kinship
Friendship and Acquaintance in Guanxi
Sources of Category Ambiguity
Conclusion
Conclusion: The Persistence and Diverse Application of a Changing Form

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