Chinese Business Philosophy: The Strategy of the "Red-Cap Merchant" Hu Xueyan in Business and Social Conduct

Author: Hu Xueyan
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Hu Xueyan was a great merchant during the late Qing Dynasty in China, the first person in Chinese history to engage in financial transactions with foreign banks; the first to be specially granted a second-rank official hat, yellow robe and horse jacket by the Qing court, and allowed to ride in the Forbidden City. Hu Xueyan's status in the history of modern Chinese commerce is comparable to that of the ancient Chinese "Merchant Sage" Tao Zhu Gong Fan Li, and he was later praised as the "Sub-Sage of Commerce."