Title: Honorable merchants : commerce and self-cultivation in late imperial China /
Authors: Lufrano, Richard John, 1952-
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Merchants China History; Business ethics China History.; China Commerce History.; China Economic conditions
Abstract: "In light of East Asia's current economic success, it has become increasingly clear that Confucian social thought, long assumed in Western scholarship to be a major stumbling block to economic development, can, under the proper circumstances, have exactly the opposite effect. Lufrano's study is the most sustained and sophisticated of recent reevaluations of Confucianism's role in the rapid commercial development in the late Ming to mid-Qing period. It will be of great interest and value to scholars in the growing field of Chinese business history and should be welcomed by those interested in the Confucian roots of Pacific Rim business practice."--Jacket.