Add to ORKGThis study focuses on the mechanisms of contract enforcement and dispute resolution in the trade of timber in Shanghai from the 1880s to the 1930s. It shows that merchant guilds, chambers of commerce, and the court system constituted complementary institutions of contract enforcement. Timber trade guilds relied on reputation mechanisms and information sharing to maintain intra-group solidarity and monitor outside trading partners. Horizontal communications among timber guilds in different localities further enhanced their capability to respond promptly to cross-regional cases. When disputes escalated beyond the scope of a single merchant guild, chambers of commerce (after 1904) and the court system became involved. Vertical communications a...
During the second half of the nineteenth century, foreign business enterprises relied considerably u...
This article is the second in a series three studies concerning the various activities of the "Engli...
This paper modifies the historical assessment of the 1906 Qing Bankruptcy Code by proposing a new ap...
This dissertation studies the history of the long-distance timber trade along the Yangzi River durin...
This work is a study in three parts: the first three chapters cover the creation of early Qing polic...
During the 1860s, Chinese merchants reestablished their commercial organizations which are recorded ...
What were the organizational structures of China’s maritime trade with its eastern neighbours, and w...
What were the organizational structures of China’s maritime trade with its eastern neighbours, and w...
This article argues that claims about the different economic trajectories of early modern Europe and...
Personalised guanxi are often seen as the backbone of Chinese social and commercial life. Historical...
The Chinese merchant and craft associations that are most similar to European guilds originated in t...
During the second half of the nineteenth century, foreign business enterprises relied considerably u...
The Mixed Court 會審公廨 was a court established in the Shanghai International Settlement in the middle ...
How did Chinese merchants remedy opportunism in a prevailing scenario of weak state enforcement duri...
Between the mid-nineteenth century and the 1930s, Shantou, a treaty port located at the southeast co...
During the second half of the nineteenth century, foreign business enterprises relied considerably u...
This article is the second in a series three studies concerning the various activities of the "Engli...
This paper modifies the historical assessment of the 1906 Qing Bankruptcy Code by proposing a new ap...
This dissertation studies the history of the long-distance timber trade along the Yangzi River durin...
This work is a study in three parts: the first three chapters cover the creation of early Qing polic...
During the 1860s, Chinese merchants reestablished their commercial organizations which are recorded ...
What were the organizational structures of China’s maritime trade with its eastern neighbours, and w...
What were the organizational structures of China’s maritime trade with its eastern neighbours, and w...
This article argues that claims about the different economic trajectories of early modern Europe and...
Personalised guanxi are often seen as the backbone of Chinese social and commercial life. Historical...
The Chinese merchant and craft associations that are most similar to European guilds originated in t...
During the second half of the nineteenth century, foreign business enterprises relied considerably u...
The Mixed Court 會審公廨 was a court established in the Shanghai International Settlement in the middle ...
How did Chinese merchants remedy opportunism in a prevailing scenario of weak state enforcement duri...
Between the mid-nineteenth century and the 1930s, Shantou, a treaty port located at the southeast co...
During the second half of the nineteenth century, foreign business enterprises relied considerably u...
This article is the second in a series three studies concerning the various activities of the "Engli...
This paper modifies the historical assessment of the 1906 Qing Bankruptcy Code by proposing a new ap...