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 .

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 Farrar
Final insights: network analysis and the study of guanxi Barry Wellman, Wenhong Chen and Weizhen Dong.

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