Open Port and Trade with Modern Tianjin Merchants

Author: Pang Yujie
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This research outcome was supported by the Tianjin Philosophy and Social Sciences Fund and the Tianjin Higher Education Bureau Philosophy and Social Sciences Fund. This book explores the interactive relationship between the modern merchant group in Tianjin and the city's transformation into modernity. It elaborates on the formation and development of the modern merchant group, the modernization of merchant organizations, as well as issues such as the modernization of Tianjin city and the spread of modern social civilization. The book mainly introduces the traditional merchants in Tianjin before the opening of the port, the expansion of trade after the opening and the formation of the modern merchant group in Tianjin, the establishment of merchant associations and the modernization of merchant organizations in Tianjin.