Chinese social relationships are social relationships typified by a mutual social network. The individuals within the social network are connected by“guanxi”(links) and the feeling within the links is known by the term“ganqing”. An important concept within Chinese social relationships is the concept of face, as in many other Asian cultures. As articulated in the sociological works of Chinese leading academic Fei Xiaotong, the Chinese—in contrast to people of other societies—tend to see social relationships in terms of social networks. Hence, the relationships between people are perceived as being“near”or“far”rather than“in”or“out”.
中國的社會關系是典型的由共同的社交網(wǎng)絡（social network）組成的社會關系。社交網(wǎng)絡中的個體通過“關系”相連，關系中的情感被稱為“感情”。中國的社會關系中一個非常重要的概念是“面子”概念，就像其他許多亞洲文化中的一樣。正如中國學術大家費孝通的社會學著作中所寫的那樣，中國人——跟其他社會的人相比——傾向于從社會網(wǎng)絡角度看社會關系。因此，人們的關系以“近”或者“遠”界定，而不是“有”或者“無”。
