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Unlike the idea of civil society, the concept of social capital has yet to be widely used in the field of Chinese studies. Based on a case study of entrepreneurial organizations in Suzhou, this paper illustrates the unique and complex process of social capital formation in reform-era China among the newly emergent Chinese business elite. Entrepreneurs use social capital to influence state policymaking and to forge a relationship between entrepreneurial organizations and the state that involves a dynamic process of power negotiation. The findings shed some light on how to revise thinking about civil society and the state in contemporary China.
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Yongming, Z. (2001). Social capital and power: Entrepreneurial elite and the state in contemporary China. In: Montgomery, J.D., Inkeles, A. (eds) Social Capital as a Policy Resource. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6531-1_6
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