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.
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Introduction 1. The Institutions 2. The Networks 3. Breaking into the Market 4. The Price of Success 5. Cartel as a Business Network 6. Relationship with the Nationalist State 7. At War Postscript Appendices Glossary