Chinese Business History: Interpretive Trends and Priorities for the Future: Interpretive Trends and Priorities for the Future

This study focuses on how Chinese business organization, practice, and success have been interpreted in the historical literature and identifies the major issues in this growing subfield of modern Chinese history. By introducing various interpretations of China's economic development (including the impact of the West, modernization, and Marxist, Weberian, and revisionist approaches) as well as Western business history theory, this seminal work establishes a basis for constructing an appropriate framework for future research on Chinese business history.