Doing Business in Rural China: Liangshan's New Ethnic Entrepreneurs

by Thomas Heberer

Book Overview

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804095

Longlisted for the 2009 ICAS Book Award

Mountainous Liangshan Prefecture, on the southern border of Sichuan Province, is one of China's most remote regions. Although Liangshan's majority ethnic group, the Nuosu (now classified by the Chinese government as part of the Yi ethnic group) practiced a subsistence economy and were, by Chinese standards, extremely poor. Their traditional society...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295993731
• ISBN13: 9780295993737
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"