Merchants of Zigong Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China

Name: Merchants of Zigong Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China
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ISBN: 9780231135979

ISBN-10: 0231135971

ISBN-13: 9780231135979

Edition: 2008

Authors: Madeleine Zelin

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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 Sino-Japanese War in the late 1930s, salt production in Zigong was one of the largest and one of the only indigenous large-scale industries in China. Madeleine Zelin recounts the history of the salt industry to reveal a fascinating chapter in China's history and provide new insight into the forces and institutions that shaped Chinese economic and social development independent of Western or Japanese influence. Her book…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 3/25/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Madeleine Zelin is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, professor of history and East Asian languages and cultures, and former director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. She is the author of The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth Century Ch'ing Chinaand the coeditor of Contract and Property in Early Modern China.