Introduction

Tengda Hua
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Tengda Hua: Shanghai University of Political Science and Law

Chapter Chapter 1 in Merchants, Market and Monarchy, 2021, pp 1-33 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter serves as the introduction part. It first elaborates why researching the status and role of merchants in the market and their relationship with the state in early modern China is important. Then it discusses the methodology to be used in this monograph. Within this part, the major schools of economic thought in Ming China will also be introduced. The last section of this chapter will present the main structure of this book.

Keywords: Status; Merchants; Early modern China; School of economic thought (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77189-8_1

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