Bun kwan man (11 Ergebnisse)

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First Edition. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. viii, 239, [1]; 4 maps and 1 plan in the text; previous owner's bookplate, inscription in Chinese on front free endpaper (possibly authorial); fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "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 stablise 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 idealised '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" (jacket blurb).…

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Zustand: New. Covering the years of Japanese invasion during World War II, this essay collection recounts Chinese experiences of living and working under conditions of war. Through stories of both everyday people and mid-level technocrats, this book brings to light the e.

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Zustand: New. 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. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCC; KCD; KCP; KCZ; KNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. . . 2014. 1st ed. 2014. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorKwan Man Bun, Ph.D. (1990), Stanford University, is Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. He has published Beyond Market and Hierarchy, a companion volume to this work, as well as monographs and .

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - '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.…

Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2001, (8),239,(1) pag., original cloth with dustjacket. Owner's name, else fine. For nearly 400 years the Changlu salt merchants played a leading role in the urbanization and social change of the city of Tianjin. This work studies the social role of the salt merchants and reveals how they helped stabilize the city and assumed many civic responsibilities.…