Corporate Conquests - Business, State, Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China

A history of China's desperately unequal modern economic landscape that begins in the nation's remote Southwest but ends by providing new understandings of ethnic inequality and the origins of China's unique corporate organizations.

List of contents

1. The Muleteers

2. Families

3. The Revolutionaries

4. The Excluded

5. Mining

6. The Technocrat

7. Corporations, the State, and Ethnic Difference

Epilogue: Conquest of Corporations

About the author

C. Patterson Giersch is Professor of History at Wellesley College. He is the author of Asian Borderlands (2006).

Summary

A history of China's desperately unequal modern economic landscape that begins in the nation's remote Southwest but ends by providing new understandings of ethnic inequality and the origins of China's unique corporate organizations.

Product details

• Authors: C Patterson Giersch, C. Patterson Giersch
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781503612167
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-1216-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Geschichte einzelner Unternehmen / Unternehmensgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, HISTORY / Asia / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History, History - General History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social