Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Contents xiii
5. Tables xv
6. China's Early Industrialization xvii
7. 1. The Kuan-tu Shang-pan System: "Official Supervision and Merchant Management" 1
8. 2. Economic Conditions in the Late Ch'ing Period 31
9. 3. Sheng Hsuan-Huai (1844–1916): Official and Industrialist 58
10. 4. The China Merchants' Company: Merchant Management 96
11. 5. The China Merchants' Company: Official Supervision 150
12. 6. Three Kuan-tu Shang-pan Enterprises 189
13. 7. Conclusion: Toward "Bureaucratic Capitalism" 242
14. Notes 253
15. Index 303
16. Bibliography of Western Works 313
17. Glossary of Chinese and Japanese names and terms 336