Gifts, favors, and banquets : the art of social relationships in China /

An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business-all su...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1994.
Series:Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture.
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