Part I Chinese business and the state

1 The state and commerce

William Rowe

2 The Khaw group: Chinese business in early twentieth--century Penang

J. W. Cushman

3 The imperial factories of Suzhou: limits and characteristics of state intervention during the Ming and Qing dynasties

Paolo Santangelo

4 The Qing state and merchant enterprise: the China Merchant's Company, 1872--1902

Chi--kong Lai

5 Malaysia's new economic policy and the Chinese business community

Fujio Hara

6 The Kuomintang regime and the Shanghai capitalists, 1927--29

Parks M. Coble Jr

7 The Nationalist state and regulation of Chinese industry during the Nanjing decade: competition and control in coal mining

Tim Wright

8 The politics of cotton textiles in the Nanking decade

Richard C. Bush

9 Guarantors and guarantees in Qing government--business relations

Andrea McElderry

10 The private sector: the regulation of small rural traders

Dorothy J. Solinger

Part II Business and law

11 Company law and the emergence of the modern firm

David Faure

12 The power and limit of the private contract in Ming--Qing China and today

David Faure

Anthony Pang

13 China unincorporated: company law and business enterprise in twentieth--century China

William C. Kirby

14 Customary law and the economic growth of China during the Ch'ing period, Part I

Fu--mei Chang Chen

Ramon H. Myers

15 Customary law and the economic growth of China during the Ch'ing period, Part II

Fu--mei Chang Chen

Ramon H. Myers

16 The concept of property in Chinese customary law

Edward Kroker

17 Commercial contract law in late nineteenth--century Taiwan

Rosser H. Brockman

18 Customary law, markets, and resource transactions in late imperial China