Bøker av Brett Sheehan

This book traces the development of banking and paper money in republican Tianjin to explore the creation of social trust in financial institutions. Sheehan frames the study around Bian Baimei, a conscientious branch manager of the Bank of China.

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.