Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohao: Banking, State, and Family, 1720-1910 - Paperback

by Luman Wang (Author)

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.

Author Biography

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.