Bøker av Man Bun Kwan

Patriots' Games offers a microhistory of Fan Xudong's Yongli Chemical Industries from its founding in 1917 to nationalization in 1953, revealing hitherto hidden processes and dilemmas confronting private capital in modern China.

Based on extensive archival research, Beyond Market and Hierarchy reconstructs how Fan waged modern China's war of salts. Led by his Jiuda Salt Industries, the nascent refined salt industry battled revenue farmers who, as a group, monopolized the production and distribution of evaporated salt.