Guānxi describes the basic dynamic in personalized networks of influence, and is a central concept in Chinese society. In Western media, the pīnyīn 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 reflect the wide cultural implications that guānxi describes. Closely related concepts include that of gǎnqíng, a measur… (More on Guanxi)