The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China by Madeleine Zelin

The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China

Madeleine Zelin

406 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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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 i...

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