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Enterprise and Society 2005 6(4):712-714; doi:10.1093/es/khi109
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella, eds. Contract and Property in Early Modern China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. vii + 398 pp. ISBN 0-8047-4639-7, $65.00.

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In 1887 the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society—China Branch sponsored a symposium on "Chinese partnerships," in which a number of eminent China hands such as E. H. Parker and Chaloner Alabaster shared their long experience with the subject. The discussants agreed, among other things, that liability for debts of the firm was enforceable in Chinese courts, that this liability was shared among the partners according to their contractually determined shares in the business, and that a contractually designated "managing partner" normally . . . [Full Text of this Article]

William T. Rowe

Johns Hopkins University


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