Factions and the Politics of Guanxi: Paradoxes in Chinese Administrative and Political Behaviour
THE RULES OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN CHINESE POLITICS, AND ESPECIALLY THE WORKINGS OF GUANXI, DO NOT FOLLOW PRECISE OR CONSTANT FORMULATIONS BUT ARE RATHER NUANCED AND SUBTLE BECAUSE THEY ADJUST TO PARTICULAR SITUATIONS. TWO PAIRS OF CONCEPTS ARE BASIC TO UNDERSTANDING CHINESE POLITICAL BEHAVIOR....
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Veröffentlicht in: | The China journal (Canberra, A.C.T.) A.C.T.), 1995-07, Vol.34 (34), p.35-53 |
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Zusammenfassung: | THE RULES OF PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN CHINESE POLITICS, AND ESPECIALLY THE WORKINGS OF GUANXI, DO NOT FOLLOW PRECISE OR CONSTANT FORMULATIONS BUT ARE RATHER NUANCED AND SUBTLE BECAUSE THEY ADJUST TO PARTICULAR SITUATIONS. TWO PAIRS OF CONCEPTS ARE BASIC TO UNDERSTANDING CHINESE POLITICAL BEHAVIOR. FIRST, SCHOLARS MUST UNDERSTAND THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE FORMAL AND INFORMAL IN POLITICS; SECOND, THEY MUST UNDERSTAND THE CLASSIFICATION OF RELATIONSHIPS AS EITHER VALUE-RATIONAL OR PURPOSE-RATIONAL. |
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ISSN: | 1324-9347 1835-8535 |
DOI: | 10.2307/2950132 |