Making of a New Rural Order in South China: Volume 2, Merchants, Markets, and Lineages, 1500–1700
«'McDermott has written a significant … contribution to the study of merchants and finance in early modern China. Readers should come equipped with a willingness to work through extended narrative digressions and long assessments of conflicting evidence.' Ian M. Miller, Agricultural History»
This volume is written for anyone who has wondered about the growth of Chinese businesses and their relation to Chinese family and government institutions. Making full use of its partner volume's findings on village institutions in the southern prefecture of Huizhou, this volume explains how late imperial China's key regional group of merchants emerged from this prefecture's village lineages. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cambridge University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781107048515
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«'McDermott has written a significant … contribution to the study of merchants and finance in early modern China. Readers should come equipped with a willingness to work through extended narrative digressions and long assessments of conflicting evidence.' Ian M. Miller, Agricultural History»