Merchants, Mandarins, and Modern Enterprise in Late Chʻing China

• Author(s): Wellington K. K. Chan,
• Publisher: East Asian Research Center, Harvard University
• Pages: 323
• ISBN_10: 0674569156
  ISBN_13: 9780674569157
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Commerce , History / General , History / Asia / General , History / Asia / China , Science / Earth Sciences / Geography ,

Description:... Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Merchants, Commerce, and the State -- Changes in the Merchant's Roles, Class Composition, and Status -- From Merchant to Bureaucratic Management -- The Illusions of Merchant Partnership -- State Control and the Official-Entrepreneur -- Merchant and Gentry in Private Enterprise -- The Founding of New Ministries -- Programs and Experiments at the Capital -- The Search for Supporting Institutions in the Provinces -- The Continuing Search: The Chamber of Commerce -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.