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Liquid Guanxi : = Chinese Social Networks in an Age of Digitalization.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Liquid Guanxi :/
Reminder of title:	Chinese Social Networks in an Age of Digitalization.
Author:	Au, Anson Cheuk-Ho.
Description:	1 online resource (245 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-10A.
Subject:	Sociology. -
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ISBN:	9798209904045

Liquid Guanxi : = Chinese Social Networks in an Age of Digitalization.
Au, Anson Cheuk-Ho.

Liquid Guanxi :Chinese Social Networks in an Age of Digitalization. - 1 online resource (245 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

The enabling and constraining properties of guanxi networking culture, its networking mechanisms, and network-level consequences in personal networks in modern China has been extensively studied in a large and growing literature since Fei Xiaotong's celebrated From the Soil. Although guanxi continues to be the glue that lubricates transactions in China's economic, labor market, military, political, scientific, and school systems in China, researchers of guanxi have overlooked the rise of social networking sites (SNSs) in everyday networking in China, which is now home to the largest and fastest population of SNS users worldwide and nearly universal adoption in everyday networking. This dissertation empirically investigates how the widespread uptake of SNSs is transforming the cultural and psychological principles of interpersonal networking in guanxi, Chinese networks. This dissertation argues that the digitalization of interactions on SNSs is rendering guanxi networks in China more liquid and theorizes the expressions of this liquidity across three networking mechanisms (tie-creation, tie-maintenance, and tie-activation) and two networking conditions (proximity and information openness) in guanxi. This dissertation consists of seven standalone papers that examine each of these facets. This dissertation theorizes the liquefying transformations to guanxi culture as refractions of a changing Chinese modernity based in the arrangements of a new social space emerging within SNSs: a digital agora, where public and private spheres come together in an intermediary space that marshals within the individual a compulsion and ability to be communal without abrogating the comforts of the private; a synergy essential to social survival in China. Among the first systematic studies to examine how SNSs fundamentally transform the ways that people in China think about and carry out their networking on an everyday level, this dissertation contributes to the study of guanxi, social networks, and Chinese modernity in general by articulating a sociological account of the changing nature of Chinese social relations in an age of digitalization.

Electronic reproduction.
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2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798209904045Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Sociology.
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