The Making of a New Rural Order in South China: Volume 2, Merchants, Markets, and Lineages, 1500-1700

ISBN-13: 9781107658615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 480 str.

Joseph P. (University of Cambridge) McDermott

Opis

In examining the key merchant group in late imperial China this book provides a framework for understanding China's path to modernity.

Recenzje

'McDermott has written a significant … contribution to the study of merchants and finance in early modern China. Readers should come equipped with a willingness to work through extended narrative digressions and long assessments of conflicting evidence.' Ian M. Miller, Agricultural History

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Ming markets and Huizhou merchants; 2. Ancestral halls and credit: building, investing, and lending; 3. The working world of Huizhou merchants, travel and trade, problems and resolutions; 4. Huizhou merchants and their financial institutions; 5. Huizhou merchants and commercial partnerships; 6. Huizhou house firms: the binds of kinship and commerce; Conclusion.