1st Edition
Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohao Banking, State, and Family, 1720-1910
By Luman Wang
Copyright 2021
208 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Chinese Banking in the Age of Capitalism: Piaohao, Hinterland, and Treaty Ports
2. Elements of Remittance Banking in Late Imperial China
3. The Political Economy of Piaohao: The Market, Provinces, and the State, 1850-1895
4. Piaohao in the Age of Fiscal Centralization, 1895-1911
5. Fortunes of the Firms and Families Under the Chinese Hinterland Capitalism
Biography
Luman Wang holds a doctorate in history from the University of Southern California and now teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research aims to narrate the long-ignored histories of the Chinese hinterland and its people on their own terms.
