Merchants and Society in Modern China: From Guild to Chamber of Commerce

ISBN-13: 9780367593575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 190 str.

Tang Lixing

Opis

From the angle of the interaction between the merchant and modern society, this book examines the factors behind the rise of the merchant class in China. Also, it probes into the reasons why it was hard for China to go beyond modern society, that is, completing the transition from commodity economy to capitalist economy.

Spis treści

List of illustrations.  Preface  Chapter One: The Merchant Culture  Chapter Two: The Integration of the Merchant in the Late Modern Times and the Rise of the Bourgeoisie  Chapter Three: The Merchant’s Role in the Evolution of Modern Society  Chapter Four: Caught in Modern Society  Bibliography.  Index

O autorze

Tang Lixing is a professor in the College of Humanities and Communications, Shanghai Normal University. His research focuses on Chinese social and business history.