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Book Review

Asia

Elisabeth Köll. From Cotton Mill to Business Empire: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, number 229.) Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Asia Center. 2003. Pp. xvi, 422. $49.50.

Elisabeth Köll's study of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Chinese industrialist, Zhang Jian (1853–1926), and his Dasheng group of companies addresses many important questions in Chinese business, economic, and social history. Grounded in solid archival research and with a good treatment of the business history literature, the book makes an important contribution to the debate on the nature of Chinese business organization. That debate, in turn, forms a subset of the larger questions about the characteristics of industrialization and capitalism.

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