Brokers as Entrepreneurs in Presocialist China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2107350 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Mann (University of California, Santa Cruz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 614-636 |
| Publication date | 1984-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500011191 |
| OpenAlex | W2095060349 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 31 |
Brokers or middlemen have been called a key element in preindustrial economic development, facilitating the exchange of goods within the domestic economy and opening rural production systems to foreign markets. Though Chinese society historically boasted a vigorous brokerage system, many studies of Chinese brokers have viewed them as obstacles to the development of entrepreneurship and capitalist transformation. China's brokers were limited, it is argued, by larger structural constraints-the bonds of custom and community, a preindustrial mode of production, a particular form of state organization and ideology-that inhibited entrepreneurial activities. This view is best reflected in the writings of Marxist historians who claim that brokers in China's presocialist society were an integral part of a feudal system in which landlords and the state dominated the peasant/worker economy, preventing the flowering of the 'capitalist sprouts' shooting forth from China's towns and villages
Business · Capitalism · Capitalist mode of production · China · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Element (criminal law) · Entrepreneurship · Feudalism · Ideology · Market economy · Marxist philosophy · Mode of production · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Production (economics) · State (computer science) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law
Beyond the sociology of development
History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
The Abortive Revolution
History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
The Comprador in Nineteenth Century China
The pattern of the Chinese past
Money and Credit in China
The Shanghai Capitalists and the Nationalist Government, 1927–1937
The Administrative, Economic and Social Functions of Turkish Guilds
Price-making and Market Hierarchy in Early Medieval South India
The Bengal Zamindars
Landlords and Brokers
Ting Hsien
Money and Credit in China, A Short History
Big Business in China
Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China, Part I
Tsing Hsien
China's Silk Trade. Traditional Industry in the Modern World, 1842-1937
Peasant China in Transition. The Dynamics of Development Toward Socialism, 1949-1956
The Chinese Economy
Under the Ancestor's Shadow
Under the Ancestors' Shadow
Marketing and social structure in rural China
Aspects of Group Relations in a Complex Society
Family Firms and Economic Development
The Strength of Weak Ties
State versus Merchant
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |