Merchants and Society in Modern China: Rise of Merchant Groups

ISBN-13: 9780367536800 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 226 str.

Tang Lixing

Opis

By absorbing methods of anthropology, psychology, geography, economics, as well as cultural and genealogical studies, this book studies the factors behind the rise of the merchant class in modern China, in terms of its inner structure, business modes, cultural traits, etc.

Spis treści

List of illustrations.  Preface  Chapter One: The Merchant in Traditional Society  Chapter Two: The Integration of the Merchant in Early Modern Times and the Rise of Merchant Groups  Chapter Three: The Merchant’s Organizations  Chapter Four: The Merchant and the Sprout of Chinese Capitalism  Chapter Five: The Merchant and the Communal Life  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.