Horesh, Niv2017-05-182017-05-182009Horesh, N. (2011). Asian networks vs. Asian-Studies networks: on reflexivity and generational tensions in Western academe. In R. Cribb (Ed.), Transmission of academic values in Asian Studies: workshop proceedings. Canberra: Australia-Netherlands Research Collaboration978-1-74076-225-0http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116964In this brief article, I would like to broach the obvious: the notion of ‘networks’ as being particularly Asian, or Chinese, is misguided. So is the overemphasis on ‘networks’ in much of the academic literature on China’s rise. Drawing on observed phenomenon in American and Australian academe, I will try to sketch out why networks - or ‘circles of esteem’ - are significant everywhere; where and how they occur in Western academe, and by implication - how they pervade and compromise academic recruitment and research excellence.Australian National University and Leiden University165kB14 pagespdfANU has permission for web publication from the authors of all the papers included in the collection Transmission of academic values in Asian Studies. A statement appears on the main page of the website: 'Copyright in and responsibility for the content of each paper lies with its author. Papers appear on this website by permission of the authors. Any paper may be downloaded for fair use under the Copyright Act (1954), its later amendments and any other relevant legislation.' - from email of Professor Robert Cribb, ANRC Project Coordinator (Australia), dated 4/8/11Max Weber, Karl Marx, Confucianism, Karl Wittfogel, Oriental despotism, Bill Jenner, tyranny of history, China, particularism, orthodoxy, family business networks, civil society, guanxi, Chinese diaspora, circles of esteem, John King Fairbank, Sinology, John Israel, networking, Jonathan Spence, Pamela Crossley, cronyism, immigration, Australian Public Service, NAATI, metrics, Publish or Perish2011