The art of business Greg Clydesdale

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"China is on track to become the world's largest economy, yet the West still has a poor unerstanding of this economic giant. Greg Clydesdale looks beyond the standard Western conception of Chinese business - the Silk Road, Marco Polo and the opium trade - to examine how Cathayan merchants made money, and how China's national commerce has evolved over time. He explains the historical practices, values and achievements of Chinese business and examines how merchants built substantial wealth by mastering the spatial and temporal dimensions of the market. ... By looking at business through China's imperial dynasties and into the modern era, we discover the strategies [that] enabled Chinese merchants to become rich and gain insights into the genesis of a global power.