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Synonyms

East Asia; Network social capital

Glossary

ABS:

Asian Barometer Studies

EASS:

East Asian Social Survey

CGSS:

Chinese General Social Survey

GDP:

Gross domestic product

Guanxi :

Chinese expression of social connections

JGSS:

Japanese General Social Survey

JSNET:

Job-Search Networks

KGSS:

Korean General Social Survey

PRC:

People’s Republic of China

SNA:

Social network analysis

Tri-society project:

A social capital research project in the USA, China, and Taiwan

TSCS:

Taiwan Social Change Survey

Definition

East Asian social networks are social networks as practiced by East Asian people and observed in East Asian societies. Creative scholarship on East Asian social networks has been published in English for decades, and it is mostly about China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, the four East Asian societies which this review covers. As compared to social networks in the West, social networks in East Asia tend to have a high centrality in society, a visible hierarchical structure mimic of...

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The authors thank David Knoke for his invitation and advice on the outline of this essay and are grateful to Wenhong Chen, Yunsong Chen, Qiang Fu, Yang-chih Fu, Ray-May Hsung, Gina Lai, Nan Lin, Danching Ruan, and Lijun Song for making their publications available.

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  1. Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Yanjie Bian

  2. Institute for Empirical Social Science Research, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China

    Yanjie Bian

  3. Department of Media Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

    Ken’ichi Ikeda

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Bian, Y., Ikeda, K. (2018). East Asian Social Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_60

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