More Important than Formal Social Tie? Guanxi as the Informal Social Tie in China Ancient Political Structure
Journal Title: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 3
Abstract
Numerous historical recordings, political and academic works denounced the small groups formed by the officials in ancient China political structure. Such small groups were based on the informal social ties, guanxi. However, the small groups were popular in ancient China politics, and rare literatures tried to investigate the positive function of such groups. The aim of this paper is to investigate the positive effect of such groups in the shed of recent research about guanxi. It is found that the small groups were necessary to the benign ecology of ancient politics. When the circle bridges connected the different groups, the whole political structure would be effective. But it is needed to mention that, without the connection of the circle bridges, the cutthroat competition would happen and result in the weakening of the whole political structure. Without the small groups in the political structure, or in other words, there was only one political circle centered the emperor, the initiative of the circle members would weaken and the efficiency would not be achieved.
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Ruihui Han
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