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 | The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) by Madeleine Zelin Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-231-13597-1 / 0231135971 ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13597-9 / 9780231135979 At the periphery of the Chinese empire, a group of innovative entrepreneurs built companies that dominated the Chinese salt trade and created thousands of jobs in the Sichuan region. From its dramatic expansion in the early nineteenth century to its decline on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War in the | |