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Social Mobility among Businessmen in a Taiwanese Town

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Wolfram Eberhard
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One of the weaknesses of comparative studies of the development of an entrepreneurial class is the lack of detailed data. Often such studies make use of census data which indicate the growth of this class in general but fail to show clearly the origins of new entrepreneurs. Available case studies, on the other hand, do not cover enough ground thus precluding generalizations.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , May 1962 , pp. 327 - 339
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962

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References

1 See Levy, Marion and Kuo-heng, Shih, The Rise of the Modern Chinese Business Class (New York, 1949)Google Scholar; Jacobs, Norman, The Origin of Modern Capitalism and Eastern Asia (Hong Kong, 1958).Google Scholar

2 Lewis, Gordon F., “A comparison of some Aspects of the Backgrounds and Careers of Small Business Men and American Business Leaders” in American Journal of Sociology, January 1960, pp. 340–355.Google Scholar

3 This problem and related problems are discussed in detail in a forthcoming book by the author, Social Mobility in Traditional China (in Press).

4 Some details will be presented in an article on “Business Activities of a Small Chinese Merchant” (to be published in 1962). An article on “Social Mobility among Businessmen in a Korean Town” is also ready for publication.

5 It has to be kept in mind that in an earlier generation, some 25 years ago, merchants may have failed in business. The extent of such failures cannot be established now. We cannot, therefore, compare the relative distribution of different types of shops in earlier time and today. Our comparisons refer only to changes within the same family.