The Making of a New Rural Order in South China: Volume 2, Merchants, Markets, and Lineages, 1500–1700 - Couverture rigide

McDermott, Joseph P.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1107048516 ISBN 13 : 9781107048515

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

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. It identifies the strategies they deployed to overcome the serious obstacles to their domination of major financial transactions and commodity markets throughout much of China from 1500 to 1700. At the same time it describes how the commercial success enjoyed by these 'house firms' undermined their lineages' social stability, making them vulnerable to competition from popular religious cults back home. In recounting how rural and urban institutions interacted through state and economic development, McDermott provides a powerful new framework for understanding late imperial China's distinctive trajectory to social and economic transformation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joseph P. McDermott is a Fellow of St John's College, University of Cambridge and has published and lectured widely on the social and economic history of pre-modern China. His recent books include The Making of a New Rural Order in South China, Volume 1 (Cambridge, 2013) and A Social History of the Chinese Book (2006).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107048516
• ISBN 13: 9781107048515
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 497
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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