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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on February 2, 2007
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(1):182-184; doi:10.1093/es/khm013
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

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

Madeleine Zelin. The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xxiv + 406 pp. ISBN 0-231-13596-3, $45.00 (Cloth)

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This is a detailed study of the merchants and their entrepreneurship in the salt industry of Zigong, Sichuan, from the early nineteenth century to the 1930s, with passing references to developments thereafter. Zigong was made up of two districts, Ziliujing and Gongjing. As the largest industrial center in the country up to the early twentieth century, and as one not influenced by foreign management and technology until the very tail end of the period, Zigong, which by the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

David Pong

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