Beyond Market and Hierarchy: Patriotic Capitalism and the Jiuda Salt Refinery, 1914-1953

K. Man-Bun · Man Bun Kwan

jul 2014 · Springer

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Based on extensive archival research, Beyond Market and Hierarchy reconstructs how Fan waged modern China's war of salts. Led by his Jiuda Salt Industries, the nascent refined salt industry battled revenue farmers who, as a group, monopolized the production and distribution of evaporated salt.

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Kwan Man Bun is Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Cincinnati, USA. He is the author of Tianjin jindai yansheng yu shehui (Tianjin renmin chubanshe 1999; reprinted 2010); The Salt Merchants of Tianjin (University of Hawaii Press, 2001) , and articles on modern Chinese urban, economic, and business history.