Title Chinese Hinterland capitalism and Shanxi piaohao : banking, state, and family, 1720-1910 / Luman Wang

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia. Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Chinese banking in the age of capitalism: piaohao, hinterland, and treaty ports -- 2 Elements of remittance banking in late imperial China -- 3 The political economy of piaohao: the market, provinces, and the state, 1850-1895 -- 4 Piaohao in the age of fiscal centralization, 1895-1911 -- 5 Fortunes of the firms and families under the Chinese hinterland capitalism -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index Summary This book examines Shanxi piaohao-- private financiers from the Chinese hinterland-- in the economic and business history of late imperial China, forming the original theory of Chinese hinterland capitalism. Deepening the existing understanding of capitalist dynamics at work in the families and financial institutions of late imperial China, the book foregrounds the expansionist role played by Shanxi piaohao in transforming China's market and trade from an agrarian empire to a modern nation state. In a departure for economic history, it also focuses on the histories of the people and their lifeworlds behind financial institutions, which have previously been erased by universal capitalist narratives. Persistent binary oppositions between coastal areas and hinterland; state and market; and institutions and families are each transcended in recounting the local histories of global capital in the marginalized countryside and borderlands of China. Based on a wealth of archival material and correspondence with Shanxi piaohao offices and branches, Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohaowill appeal to students and scholars of Chinese and economic history, anthropology, and postcolonial studies more generally Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Luman Wang holds a doctorate in history from the University of Southern California and now teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research aims to narrate the long-ignored histories of the Chinese hinterland and its people on their own terms Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 23, 2020) Subject Capitalism -- China -- Shanxi Sheng -- History -- 20th century Financial institutions -- China -- Shanxi Sheng -- History -- 20th century Families -- Economic aspects -- China -- Shanxi Sheng -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- Asia -- China. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- General. Capitalism Families Financial institutions China -- Shanxi Sheng Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781000194265 1000194264 1000194280 9781000194272 1000194272 9781003027270 100302727X 9781000194289

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