Social connections in China : institutions, culture, and the changing nature of Guanxi / 
 Institutions, culture, and the changing nature of Guanxi 
edited by Thomas Gold, Doug  Guthrie, David Wank. 
 - Cambridge, UK ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2002. 
 - xvii, 275 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Structural analysis in the social sciences ;  21 .
<br/><br/>1. Practices of guanxi production and practices of ganqing suppression Andrew Kipnis<br/>2. Information asymmetries and the problems of perception: the significance of structural position in assessing the importance of guanxi Doug Guthrie<br/>3. Beyond dyad social exchange: Guanxi and third party effects Lin Yimin<br/>4. Guanxi in business groups: social ties and the formation of economic relations Lisa Keister<br/>5. The significance of the declining significance of guanxi: how networks change in China's market economy David Wank<br/>6. Institutional holes and job mobility processes: guanxi mechanisms in China's emergent labor markets Yanjie Bian<br/>7. Youth job searches in urban China: the use of social connections in a changing labor market Amy Hanser<br/>8. Face, norms, and instrumentality Scott Wilson<br/>9. Guanxi and the PRC legal system: from contradiction to complementarity Pitman Potter<br/>10. 'Idle talk': neighborhood gossip as a medium of social communication in reform era Shanghai James Farrar<br/>Final insights: network analysis and the study of guanxi Barry Wellman, Wenhong Chen and Weizhen Dong. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>052181233X 0521530318 (pb.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu (China)--Social conditions.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.095128  / GOL/S