Hui Shang

Author: Wang Tingyuan, Wang Shihua
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: To facilitate readers' understanding of the full picture of Huizhou merchants, this book aims to provide a systematic discussion on the entire process of the emergence, development, and decline of Huizhou merchants. The book emphasizes the conditions for the rise of Huizhou merchants, the several stages of their development, the main industries they engaged in, their business methods and characteristics, the accumulation of their capital, their relationship with feudal political power, clan power, and Confucian traditional culture, the historical role of Huizhou merchants, and the reasons and process of their decline. At the same time, it also provides specific analysis and introduction of some representative figures among Huizhou merchants; for some controversial issues in Huizhou merchant research, we have not hesitated to offer our own perspectives.