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Yanjie Bian is the pre-eminent scholar on social networks and guanxi in China and this monograph is the benchmark of his theoretical and methodological analysis of guanxi and its global implications. A must-read for scholars and students on social networks everywhere. Nan Lin, Duke University Combining deep knowledge of Chinese culture with expertise in global network theory, Professor Yanjie Bian offers the definitive book on guanxi - the interpersonal connections through which personal achievement happens in China, and often (by other names) in the West. Ronald S. Burt, University of Chicago

Yanjie Bian is the pre-eminent scholar on social networks and guanxi in China and this monograph is the benchmark of his theoretical and methodological analysis of guanxi and its global implications. A must read for scholars and students on social networks everywhere. Nan Lin, Duke University Combining deep knowledge of Chinese culture with expertise in global network theory, Professor Yanjie Bian offers the definitive book on guanxi - the interpersonal connections through which personal achievement happens in China, and often (by other names) in the West. Ronald S. Burt, University of Chicago

Yanjie Bian is the pre-eminent scholar on social networks and guanxi in China and this monograph is the benchmark of his theoretical and methodological analysis of guanxi and its global implications. A must-read for scholars and students on social networks everywhere. Nan Lin, Duke University Combining deep knowledge of Chinese culture with expertise in global network theory, Professor Yanjie Bian offers the definitive book on guanxi - the interpersonal connections through which personal achievement happens in China, and often (by other names) in the West. Ronald S. Burt, University of Chicago [This] book provides valuable information regarding the complicated and myriad ways in which Chinese society functions and how this actually affects the politics and economics of society. Asian Affairs

Yanjie Bian is the pre-eminent scholar on social networks and guanxi in China and this monograph is the benchmark of his theoretical and methodological analysis of guanxi and its global implications. A must-read for scholars and students on social networks everywhere. Nan Lin, Duke University Combining deep knowledge of Chinese culture with expertise in global network theory, Professor Yanjie Bian offers the definitive book on guanxi - the interpersonal connections through which personal achievement happens in China, and often (by other names) in the West. Ronald S. Burt, University of Chicago

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Yanjie Bian is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota and Xi’an Jiaotong University

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