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  • 1 - Ming Markets and Huizhou Merchants

  • Joseph P. McDermott, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    The Making of a New Rural Order in South China
    Published online:
    22 June 2020
    Print publication:
    02 July 2020, pp 7-59

  • Summary

    The contrast, then, of the success of this group of merchants with a political dynasty in decline and with many educated men feeling that their learning and values were threatened by the ascendance of these merchants and a great number of other late Ming changes provides a suitable beginning to a book concerned in part with the trouble Huizhou merchants had in gaining public, official, and social recognition of their changed place in the Chinese economy by the end of the Ming.