One industry, two Chinas : silk filatures and peasant-family production in Wuxi County, 1865-1937 / Lynda S. Bell.
Publication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c1999.Description: xvi, 290 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0804729980 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780804729987 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 338.4/767739/0951222 21
- HD9926.C63 W82 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-271) and index.
Note on Wuxi County's Administrative Boundaries, Commercial Districts, and Size -- Weights, Measures, and Exchange Rates -- 1. Introduction: A Tale of Two Chinas -- 2. Markets and Power in the Late Imperial Era -- 3. Why Wuxi? Merchant Competition and the Changing Contours of Yangzi Delta Silk Production -- 4. Public Sphere or Private Interest? Defending the Wuxi Cocoon Trade -- 5. Investors at Risk in the Wuxi Filature Industry
"This book reopens and restructures the grand debate on the nature of economic development in China prior to the Communist revolution. It rejects the debate's old contours in which quantitative data were used to argue that the trajectory of Chinese development was either "positive" or "negative." Instead, the author combines quantitative analysis with a detailed study of local politics, culture, and gender to explain the shaping of the modern Chinese economy."--BOOK JACKET.
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