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Guanxi is a Chinese word. It describes the basic dynamic in personalized networks of influence, and is a central idea in Chinese society. In Western media, the pinyin romanization of this Chinese word is becoming more widely used instead of the two common translations—"connections" and "[relationships]"—as neither of those terms sufficiently reflects the wide cultural implications that guanxi describes. Closely related concepts include that of ganqing, a measure which reflects the depth of feeling within an interpersonal [relationship], renqing, the moral obligation to maintain the [relationship], and the idea of "face" known as miàn (面), meaning social status, propriety, prestige, or more realistically a combination of all three.
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