Chinese social relations are social relations typified by a reciprocal social network. Social relation can refer to a multitude of Social interactions regulated by Social norms between two or more people with each having a Social position In Cultural anthropology and Sociology, reciprocity is a way of defining people's informal Exchange of goods and labour; that A social network is a Social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency such as Often social obligations within the network are characterized in familial terms. Family denotes a group of People affiliated by consanguinity affinity or co-residence The individual link within the social network is known by guanxi (关系) and the feeling within the link is known by the term ganqing (感情). Guānxi describes the basic dynamic in the complex nature of personalized networks of influence and social relationships and is a central concept in Chinese Gǎnqíng ( is an important concept in social relations in Chinese culture which is loosely translated as "feeling" and is related to the concept of An important concept within Chinese social relations is the concept of face, as in many other Asian cultures. Face refers to two separate but related concepts in Chinese social relations. A Buddhist-related concept is yuanfen (缘分). Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices Yuan (缘 or Yuanfen (缘份 Pinyin: yuán fèn Vietnamese: duyên phận is a Buddhist -related Chinese concept that means the
Unlike other societies, the Chinese tend to see social relations in terms of networks rather than boxes. Hence, people are perceived as being "near" or "far" rather than "in" or "out".