Industrial Eden

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Industrial Eden is written by Brett Sheehan and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674287185 (ISBN 10) and 9780674287181 (ISBN 13).

This study of the evolution of Chinese capitalism chronicles the Song family of North China under five successive authoritarian governments. Brett Sheehan shows both foreign and Chinese influences on private business, which, although closely linked to the state, was neither a handmaiden to authoritarianism nor a natural ally of democracy.