Author: Lufrano, Richard John [1952- ]
Title: Honorable Merchants: Commerce and Self-cultivation in Late Imperial China
Description: Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, (1997). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xii,241 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction; The Late Imperial World: Commerce, Education & Society; The Confucian Origins of Apprentice's Education; The Apprentice's Education Begins; Relations with Government & Community; Personal Relations in the Marketplace; The Market, Management, Money & Finance; Travel & Crime; Conclusion: Self-Cultivation in Mid-level Merchant Culture;Appendix: The Maoyi xuzhi Manual.

Keywords: Chinese Economic History, Late Imperial China, Merchant Merchants, Appentices Commerce, Apprenticeship, Education Sociology, Moral Cultivation, Historical Social, Business Ethics