This book is the first Western monograph on Shanxipiaohao- private financiers from the Chinese hinterland - in the economic and business history of late imperial China, forming the original theory of Chinese hinterland capitalism. Deepening the existing understanding of capitalist dynamics at work in the families and financial institutions of late imperial China, the book foregrounds the expansionist role played by Shanxipiaohaoin transforming China's market and trade from an agrarian empire to a modern nation state. In a departure for economic history, the author also focuses on the histories of the Shanxi people and their lifeworlds behind financial institutions, which have previously been erased by universal capitalist narratives. Persistent binary oppositions between coastal areas and hinterland; state and market; institutions and families, are each transcended in recounting the local histories of global capital in the marginalised countryside and borderlands of China. Based on a wealth of archival material and correspondence with Shanxipiaohaooffices and branches, Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohaowill appeal to students and scholars of Chinese and economic history, anthropology and post-colonial studies more generally. | Chinese Hinterland Capitalism And Shanxi Piaohao by Luman Wang, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters