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Through a meticulous analysis of various historical sources, the authors of this book have uncovered a wealth of information on the trade of salt and tobacco in Guizhou province, southwest of China, in the 1930s and 1940s. Their findings not only shed light on how commercial networks and the flow of these commodities formed and transformed with the development of wartime state monopoly, but also offer a more comprehensive perspective on the role of merchants and entrepreneurs in regulated commodity chains to go beyond the dichotomous state-market perspective of socioeconomic analysis.
Contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Between Mountain and River: The Formation of a Socio-economic Network in Guizhou.- 3. The Salt Monopoly, Changing Business Networks, and the State's Remodeling of the Salt Trade.- 4. The Early Tobacco Industry in Guiding: Prosperity and Decline.- 5. Merchant on the Salt-Tobacco Road: Liu Xiyi's Business Strategy and Business Network.- 6. From Salt to Tobacco: Reforms of the Salt Tax and Tobacco Tax in Guizhou's Fiscal Revenue.- 7. Making Cooperatives on the Salt-Tobacco Road: State Organizational Embeddedness in the Distribution and Production of Salt and Tobacco (1937-1949).- 8. Conclusion.