Agree with you, this is one of the "myth" about China. It seems particularly mysterious to North Americans, but in old Europe everyone knows that the bosses of

Agree with you, this is one of the "myth" about China. It seems particularly mysterious to North Americans, but in old Europe everyone knows that the bosses of the big corporations play golf together every sunday and solve their problems informally, opening the way to more formal, contractual procedures. They will also meet regularly with men of power, and get the temperature. It also work at a much lower level: if you have good "guanxi" with the boss of the abr in front of your door and often brings friends, he will be nice and, say, call you if the cops are coming when your car is not correctly parked. Also, if you build your own house, some neighbourghs might play it nice and allow you to use a bit of the public road to stock piles of brick or whatever. All of these mean we are not wild beast living in the forest, neither are we cowboys, we have a to live in a society and having good relationships with anyone around you (upwards, downwards and at the same level) is very desirable.