Big Talk about Shaanxi Merchants

Author: Li Gang, Zhao Pei
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
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Do you want to know how Shaanxi merchants of that time, with "great wealth in their belts," ventured to Yangzhou and single-handedly created the prosperity along the Qinhuai River?
Do you want to know how Shaanxi merchants once depicted the magnificent scenery of "solitary smoke rising from the vast desert" in the desolate Gobi?
Do you want to know the historical story of how Shaanxi merchants created the legend of Moutai, the national liquor?
Do you want to know the poignant tale of Shaanxi laborers who carried tea back along the ancient Tang-Tibet trade route?
Do you want to know who the real-life prototypes of Zhang Daigong and Li Jiedai in the song "Kangding Love Song" were?
Do you want to know how Shaanxi merchants who did business in Sichuan brought back bags of Shaanxi and built the magnificent Shaanxi Guild Hall in Chengdu?
Do you want to know who created the modern phenomenon of "keeping a mistress"?
Do you want to know the touching story of how a Shaanxi merchant's wife stayed alone in an empty room for 13 years, repaying her husband's debts with 13 "tears"?
Do you want to know who ordered family members to throw large bricks of silver out during the Shaanxi-Gansu Muslim Uprising?
Then please follow this book into the forgotten tales of Shaanxi merchants during the Ming and Qing dynasties.