Friday, November 20 / 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM • Room 307 (3rd Floor)

Session 66
State and Business Institutions in Early Modern China

Chair: George Qiao, Amherst College
Discussant: Christopher Isett, University of Minnesota

1. Distilling Capital: The Shaoguo as a Frontier Financial Institution in Nineteenth-Century Manchuria • Shuang Chen, University of Iowa.

2. The Cash Trade: How Copper Coins Circulated between Qing China, Tokugawa Japan, Nguyen Vietnam, and Dutch Southeast Asia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries • Xiaoyu Gao, University of Chicago.

3. Interregional Capital Flows: From Remittance Market to Domestic Exchange • Matthew Lowenstein, Stanford University.

4. The Origin and Evolution of the Traditional Chinese Firm (Zihao) • George Qiao, Amherst College.

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