An element of Chinese culture that is significant not only to me but to my family, my community, and my entire generation is "establishing strong relationships-the art of guanxi" (Buderi & Huang 21). Guanxi has been described as being like "personalized glue" that holds business relationships together much more closely than those in the West, and Westerners are only beginning to understand the importance and implications of it (Melendez 1). The underlying forces in guanxi are trust and solidarity. Guanxi is what Westerners term "connections" or "pull," but it is more powerful than either of those words express. It is essentially the power that an individual or company has with another individual or company based on the fact that the two parties are well acquainted with each other and have developed a strong relationship of trust. This is the primary criterion f
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