'Guānxi' describes the basic dynamic in the complex nature of personalized networks of influence and social relationships, and's a central concept in Chinese society. In Western media, the pinyin romanization of this Chinese word's becoming more widely used instead of the two common translations—"connections" and "relationships"—as neither of those terms sufficiently reflect the wide cultural implications that guānxi describes. Closely related concepts include that of g… (More on Guanxi)