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Beyond Market and Hierarchy

Patriotic Capitalism and the Jiuda Salt Refinery, 1914-1953

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  1. Kwan Man Bun
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-7

  3. The Institutions

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    Pages 9-23

  4. The Networks

    • Kwan Man Bun
    Pages 25-42

  5. Breaking into the Market

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    Pages 43-60

  6. The Price of Success

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    Pages 61-76

  7. Cartel as a Business Network

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    Pages 77-93

  8. Relationship with the Nationalist State

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    Pages 95-114

  9. At War

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    Pages 115-133

  10. Postscript

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    Pages 135-139

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 141-234
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Based on extensive archival research, Beyond Market and Hierarchy reconstructs how Fan waged modern China's war of salts. Led by his Jiuda Salt Industries, the nascent refined salt industry battled revenue farmers who, as a group, monopolized the production and distribution of evaporated salt.

About the author

Kwan Man Bun is Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Cincinnati, USA. He is the author of Tianjin jindai yansheng yu shehui (Tianjin renmin chubanshe 1999; reprinted 2010); The Salt Merchants of Tianjin (University of Hawaii Press, 2001) , and articles on modern Chinese urban, economic, and business history.

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