The Merchants of Zigong Industrial Entrepreneurship in The Merchants of Zigong Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University by Madeleine Zelin Author › Visit Amazons Madeleine Zelin Page Find all the books read about the author and more The Merchants of Zigong Industrial Entrepreneurship in The Merchants of Zigong is a trove of information about business and industry in late traditional China David D Buck China Review A necessary read for business historians Lane J Harris Historian One of the best books produced on Chinese economic history Tom Wright Australian Economic History Review An important book The Merchants of Zigong Columbia University Press The Merchants of Zigong is a wellargued and welldocumented book on the history of Chinese trade and industry Juanjuan Peng The Sixteenth Century Journal this comprehensive study provides new fascinating insights into the forces and networks that shaped Chinese business and industrial development The Merchants of Zigong Industrial Entrepreneurship In From its dramatic expansion in the early nineteenth century to its decline on the eve of the SinoJapanese War in the late 1930s salt production in Zigong was one of the largest and one of the only indigenous largescale industries in China Zelin The Merchants of Zigong Industrial Zigongs economic importance peaked in the late nineteenth century when it became the largest industrial center in China This was mainly due to the ability of Zigong merchants or entrepreneurs to mobilize capital develop and utilize new technologies to exploit the rich deposits of brine and natural gas capture markets and build and sustain corporate business organizations The Merchants of Zigong Industrial Entrepreneurship in The Merchants of Zigong is a microeconomic case study that expands our knowledge of business practices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by leaps and bounds while shedding light on the institutions in which the Chinese firms operated It is a work that shows just how good historical scholarship on China can be and the volume is one that researchers will refer to time and time again The Merchants of Zigong Industrial Entrepreneurship in At the periphery of the Chinese empire a group of innovative entrepreneurs built companies that dominated the Chinese salt trade and created thousands of jobs in the Sichuan region From its dramatic expansion in the early nineteenth century to its decline on the eve of the SinoJapanese War in the Project MUSE The Merchants of Zigong Industrial The Merchants of Zigong is the most detailed study we have of merchantled industrial production in early modern China In rich detail Madeleine Zelin examines a littleknown but fascinating production process salt brine operations in two towns deep in the interior of Sichuan province in central China The Merchants of Zigong Industrial Entrepreneurship in The Merchants of Zigong Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China At the periphery of the Chinese empire a group of innovative entrepreneurs built companies that dominated the Chinese salt trade and created thousands of jobs in the Sichuan region
Title : The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)
ISBN : 0231135963
Release Date : 2006-01-18
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