The merchants of Zigong : industrial entrepreneurship in early modern China /
Zelin, Madeleine.
New York : Columbia University Press,
[2008?], c2005.
Originally published: 2005.
Salt administration and salt technology -- The structure of investment in late Qing Furong -- Fragmentation as a business strategy -- Organization and entrepreneurship in Qing Furong -- The growth of an urban workforce -- Official transport and merchant sales -- Technological and organizational change, 1894-1930 -- The changing of the guard at the Furong Saltyard -- Politics, taxes, and markets: the fate of Zigong in the early twentieth century -- Zigong: industrial city or handicraft enclave?
Commerce.