Ming And Qing Dynasties Shanshan Traders And The Relationship Between Research,

From the beginning of nineties in last century,the resersch about ShangBang of China is a hot topic which has always been concerned by the scholars.The research of Shanxi businessmen and Shaanxi businessmen have achieved many good results,but this type of researches which made Shanxi businessmen apart from Shaanxi businessmen is only a fragmented research and it ignored a basic fact that Shanxi businessmen and Shaanxi businessmen always run their business thgether in so many regions and so long historical period that they were seen as an union named "XiShang" or "Shanshann Busimessmen" During the Ming and Qing dynasties,Shanshan businessmen are not isolated from each other and there existed complex and delicate relationship between them. So this paper attempts to conduct an overall study about Shanshan businessmen. It is specially focused on the relationship (particularly the joint relationship) between Shanshan businessmen so as to make us clear about the law of their success.To explore the relationship between Shanshann Businessmen better, this paper firstly introduced the basic business condition of Shanxi Businessmen and Shannxi Businessmen, that there were same projects, source of goods, market and business line in the business. All these common ground made it possible that Shanshann Businessmen may join together out of the economic interests. After that, this paper analyzed the reasons of this joint relationship from historical, economic and cultural angles and concluded that Shanshann businessmen established their joint relationship in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Then this paper analyzed their economy joint forms and organization joint forms so as to make people know how Shanshann businessmen can achieve the union in economy and organization. Then the paper analyzed this joint conditions between Shanshann businessmen in the whole country, particularly in Henan, Hubei, Shandong, Gansu. Lastly, this paper analyzed the inevitably competitive relationship between them and from this analysis the paper finished the study about the relationship between Shanshann businessmen during the Ming and Qing dynasties. From this type of overall study, this paper made the conclusion that during the the Ming and Qing dynasties there was a joint and competitive relationship between Shanshann businessmen in which the joint relationship played a more important role. In each chapter of the paper, the method of historical analysis and economic analysis were integrated used to analyze the issue from multiple perspectives. The innovation of this paper:firstly this paper make the relationship between Shanshann Businessmen as its research object and overcomed limitations of many separate study about Shanxi Businessmen and Shaanxi Businessmen from especially studying the law about the ccurrence, development and changes of this relationship.Secondly, this paper compared the form in capital organization of Shanxi Businessmen and Shaanxi Businessmen, and it especially studied the partnership of Shanshann Businessmen.Thirdly, this paper statisticed the number of HuiGuan in every province builded by Shanshann Businessmen during the Ming and Qing dynasties and analyzed its distribution characteristics. Fourthly, from the perspective of business line, this paper discussed the joint conditions in Henan, Hubei, Gansu and other provinces in detail.During the Ming and Qing dynasties,the joint and competitive relationship between Shanshann businessmen in which the joint relationship played a more important role was one of most lively and interesting economic phenomena of Chinese commercial history. To study the type of relationship, not only can make us stop the separate study about Shanshann businessmen, but also can give us many instructive advice on how to develop the united regional economy for Shanxi and Shannxi provinces.