Making of a New Rural Order in South China: Volume 2, Merchants, Markets, and Lineages, 1500-1700

This volume is written for anyone who has wondered about the growth of Chinese businesses and their relation to Chinese family and government institutions. Making full use of its partner volume''s findings on village institutions in the southern prefecture of Huizhou, this volume explains how late imperial China''s key regional group of merchants emerged from this prefecture''s village lineages. I...