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Big business in China : Sino-foreign rivalry in the cigarette industry 1890-1930 / Sherman Cochran.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cochran, Sherman, 1940-
- Series:
- Harvard studies in business history ; 33.
- Harvard studies in business history ; 33
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cigarette industry--China--History.
- Cigarette industry.
- History.
- China--Commerce.
- China.
- Commerce.
- Physical Description:
- x, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [1980]
- Summary:
- This is the first major study in Chinese business history based largely on business's own records. It focuses on the battle for the cigarette market in early twentieth-century China between the British-American Tobacco company, based in New York and London, and its leading Chinese rival, Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company, whose headquarters were in Hong King and Shanghai.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 297-318.
- ISBN:
- 0674072626
- OCLC:
- 5675942
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