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”.
中国的社会关系是典型的由共同的社交网络（social network）组成的社会关系。社交网络中的个体通过“关系”相连，关系中的情感被称为“感情”。中国的社会关系中一个非常重要的概念是“面子”概念，就像其他许多亚洲文化中的一样。正如中国学术大家费孝通的社会学著作中所写的那样，中国人——跟其他社会的人相比——倾向于从社会网络角度看社会关系。因此，人们的关系以“近”或者“远”界定，而不是“有”或者“无”。