Getting a job through a web of Guanxi in China

Networks in the Global Village: Life in Contemporary Communities

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 255-278

  Bian, Yanjie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780429498718     Document Type: Chapter

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