East Asian Social Networks

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….