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Kwan, Man Bun.

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The merchant world of Tianjin: Society and economy of a Chinese city.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The merchant world of Tianjin: Society and economy of a Chinese city./
作者:	Kwan, Man Bun.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1990,
面頁冊數:	643 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-11, Section: A, page: 3870.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International51-11A.
標題:	Asian history. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9108858

The merchant world of Tianjin: Society and economy of a Chinese city.
Kwan, Man Bun.

The merchant world of Tianjin: Society and economy of a Chinese city. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1990 - 643 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-11, Section: A, page: 3870.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 1990.

As agents of social change, merchants and the commercial capital they represented have received mixed reviews. This theoretical ambivalence is reflected in the different positions held by Marx, Weber, Dobb, Sweezy, Wallerstein, and Kindleberger, to name but a few. Recent studies using the profiles of early industrialists in England suggest that the early industrialists were drawn primarily from the ranks of merchants and other members of the middle class. In the case of China, early works used modernization theory to explain the dominance of government-sponsored industries. Recent studies have gone beyond the use of such misplaced polarities and challenged assumptions about the backwardness of the Chinese merchants stemming from Max Weber's influential concept of the unique "Occidental" city.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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520 $a This dissertation studies Tianjin's commercial capital and its role in the city's development and industrialization. Over the course of four centuries of economic cycles, political upheavals, and trade along the coast, along the Grand Canal, and with the interior, Tianjin gradually developed into the economic center of North China, with the city providing banking, transportation and insurance services for the entire region. Merchants, led by the salt merchants, became the leading citizens of this once humble guard station. Fortified by generations of inter-marriages and bureaucratic service, they set the tone of the city's cultural life, financed their own militia, fire brigades, and numerous local charities. It was, indeed, not a static, irrational, or "backward" society.
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