Similar Concepts in Other Cultures
Sociologists have linked guanxi with the concept of social capital (it has been described as a Gemeinschaft value structure), and it has been exhaustively described in Western studies of Chinese economic and political behavior.
- Blat in Russian culture
- Wasta in Middle Eastern culture
- Sociolismo in Cuban culture
- Old boy network
- Dignitas in Roman culture
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