Beyond Market and Hierarchy

Kwan Man Bun is Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Cincinnati, USA. He is the author of Tianjin jindai yansheng yu shehui (Tianjin renmin chubanshe 1999; reprinted 2010); The Salt Merchants of Tianjin (University of Hawaii Press, 2001) , and articles on modern Chinese urban, economic, and business history.

• Introduction 1. The Institutions 2. The Networks 3. Breaking into the Market 4. The Price of Success 5. Cartel as a Business Network 6. Relationship with the Nationalist State 7. At War Postscript Appendices Glossary