China's early industrialization. Sheng Hsuan-huai 1844-1916 and Mandarin enterprise

by Albert Feuerwerker

$45 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. 8vo, pp. xii, 4 , 311, 1 , xxxii; portrait frontispiece; full red cloth; gilt title on spine; pencil annotations in margins, book stamp of Norman Jacobs on free endpaper, some shallow chipping and light soiling to dust jacket, near fine/very good. A study of the system of 'official supervision and merchant management' kuan-tu shang-pan which set the pattern for the earliest efforts to introduce modern industrial

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