THE GILDS OF CHINA by Hosea Ballou Morse 1909 Chinese Craft Guilds & Merchants
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TITLE: The Gilds of China, with an Account of the Gild Merchant or Co-hong of Canton.
AUTHOR: Hosea Ballou Morse
PUBLISHER: New York, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green & Co.
DATE: 1909
DESCRIPTION: ix, 92 pages illustrations 23 cm.
CONDITION NOTES: EX-LIBRARY GOOD. Foxing. Large library bookplate with stamps to front pastedown. Circulation pocket remains on back pastedown. Covered with a heavy polyethylene sheet protector.
BINDING: Brown cloth hardcover.
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CHAPTERS:
Introductory: Political conditions affecting Chinese and European gilds --
Economic conditions affecting Chinese and European gilds --
Accumulation of capital in China and Europe --
Protection given by the law in China and Europe --
The Religious fraternity --
The Craft Guild --
The Provincial Club --
The Gild Merchant .
FROM THE PREFACE: " In first approaching the subject treated in this booklet, my intention was to write a review article which should compare and contrast the organisation and working of gilds in China and in the Western world. My writing soon over-ran the space which any review editor could grant to such a subject; and I found, moreover, that the information at my disposal on Chinese gilds was mainly in the shape of matériel pour servir, and that, properly speaking, no analysed account of the gild system was available. -- Preface."
