Description
| Product ID: | 9780367551360 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia |
| Title: | Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohao |
| Subtitle: | Banking, State, and Family, 1720-1910 |
| Authors: | Author: Luman Wang |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Regional / International studies, Regional studies, General and world history, Asian history, History, International economics, Economic history, Finance and accounting, Banking, International business, Management and management techniques, General & world history, Asian history, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, International economics, Economic history, Finance & accounting, Banking, International business, Management & management techniques, Asia, China |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book examines Shanxi piaohao – private financiers from the Chinese hinterland – in the economic and business history of late imperial China, forming the original theory of Chinese hinterland capitalism. This book examines Shanxi piaohao—private financiers from the Chinese hinterland—in the economic and business history of late imperial China, forming the original theory of Chinese hinterland capitalism. Deepening the existing understanding of capitalist dynamics at work in the families and financial institutions of late imperial China, the book foregrounds the expansionist role played by Shanxi piaohao in transforming China’s market and trade from an agrarian empire to a modern nation state. In a departure for economic history, it also focuses on the histories of the people and their lifeworlds behind financial institutions, which have previously been erased by universal capitalist narratives. Persistent binary oppositions between coastal areas and hinterland; state and market; and institutions and families are each transcended in recounting the local histories of global capital in the marginalized countryside and borderlands of China. Based on a wealth of archival material and correspondence with Shanxi piaohao offices and branches, Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohao will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese and economic history, anthropology, and postcolonial studies more generally. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-04-29 |
