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Beyond Market and Hierarchy

Patriotic Capitalism and the Jiuda Salt Refinery, 1914-1953

By: K. Man-Bun,Man Bun Kwan

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Beyond Market and Hierarchy

Patriotic Capitalism and the Jiuda Salt Refinery, 1914-1953

By: K. Man-Bun,Man Bun Kwan

Based on extensive archival research, Beyond Market and Hierarchy reconstructs how Fan waged modern China's war of salts. Led by his Jiuda Salt Industries, the nascent refined salt industry battled revenue farmers who, as a group, monopolized the production and distribution of evaporated salt.

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Springer

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1137331941

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9781137331946

The Salt Merchants of Tianjin

State-Making and Civil Society in Late Imperial China

By: Man Bun Kwan

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The Salt Merchants of Tianjin

State-Making and Civil Society in Late Imperial China

By: Man Bun Kwan

For nearly four hundred years the Changlu salt merchants played a leading role in the urbanization, commercial development, and social change of the city of Tianjin. As early as the fifteenth century, this small yet important group of citizens negotiated with the state as revenue-farmers, developing and defending their businesses and customs while evolving their own urban culture. In this the first detailed study in English of the mercantile activities and social role of Tianjin's salt merchants, Kwan Man Bun reveals how they helped stabilize the city and assumed many civic responsibilities, providing relief, charities, and other services to their fellow citizenry. Although these developments resemble the emergence of an idealized "public sphere" as in Europe, Kwan makes clear that Tianjin's social changes were not grounded on "rational discourse" but rather drew their strength and continuity from merchant networks based on exclusivity, wealth, education, and kinship.

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249

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824865006

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9780824865009

Patriots' Game

Yongli Chemical Industries, 1917-1953

By: Man Bun Kwan

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Patriots' Game

Yongli Chemical Industries, 1917-1953

By: Man Bun Kwan

“When thinking about modern China’s chemical industry, forget not Fan Xudong,” so declared Mao Zedong publicly after 1949. Although Mao might have united front politics in mind when invoking Fan as a paragon of the national bourgeoisie, why would the chairman praise a champion of private enterprise? How did Fan Xudong and his colleagues build Yongli from scratch into one of the largest industrial conglomerates in modern China amid predatory foreign competition and domestic strife? What were his secrets of success? Drawing from company documents, government archives, and personal correspondences, this book traces Yongli’s birth, growth, nationalization, and how Fan and his colleagues pursued a third path of national development between for-profit private enterprise and state ownership.

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BRILL

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9004336389

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9789004336384

Beyond Market and Hierarchy

Patriotic Capitalism and the Jiuda Salt Refinery, 1914-1953

By: K. Man-Bun,Man Bun Kwan

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Patriotic Capitalism and the Jiuda Salt Refinery, 1914-1953

By: K. Man-Bun,Man Bun Kwan

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The Salt Merchants of Tianjin

State-Making and Civil Society in Late Imperial China

By: Man Bun Kwan

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State-Making and Civil Society in Late Imperial China

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Beyond Market and Hierarchy

Beyond Market and Hierarchy

The Salt Merchants of Tianjin

The Salt Merchants of Tianjin

Patriots' Game

Patriots' Game

Beyond Market and Hierarchy

Beyond Market and Hierarchy

The Salt Merchants of Tianjin

The Salt Merchants of Tianjin

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