In a global economy, workers must assert their collective rights as workers in order to win human rights as individuals
Seven previously published but long out-of-print essays, and one new essay, explore traditional and modern manufacturing in Ming and Qing China and its relationship to the government
Explains through descriptive analysis why the economy of China did not grow more dramatically during the Ch’ing and Republican periods
Translation of Yang Chao-yu’s Chung-kuo tien-tang yeh (1929), treating the pawnshop in late imperial and Republican times and covering such as aspects as exteriors, interiors, and fixtures, as well as business and management practices
An examination of the silk industry in Ch’ing China
Studies the development of communications and transport in Sung and Yuan times, the formation of a nationwide market and the development of cities and markets during the Sung Dynasty, and the characteristics of commercial capital