The Confucian Merchant Tradition in the Late Qing and the Early Republic and Its Contemporary Significance：A Case Study Centered on Zhang Jian and Jing Yuanshan
Ma Min
Institute of Modern Chinese History， Central China Normal University， Wuhan 430079
Abstract：In the late Qing， with the great changes in the social movements rose the number of Chinese Confucius merchants and formed the Confucius merchants group represented by people like Zhang Jian and Jing Yuanshan. They tried to combine the Confucius ethics and capitalist thoughts on business， giving rise to the new business tradition， i.e.， Confucius merchant tradition. This tradition， although based on the traditional Confucius ethics， absorbed the fine parts of modern thoughts， such as patriotism， developing the country， business war and collaborations， which are of the characteristics of the new era. Compared with the Ming and Early Qing， those Confucius merchants paid more attention to the country-building， promoting the new education， and establishing the merchant’s association to realize the self-governing. This Confucius merchant tradition in the late Qing is of great historical importance to the rebuilding of business moral culture and entrepreneurship in the contemporary era.
马 敏. 近代儒商传统及其当代意义——以张謇和经元善为中心的考察[J]. 华中师范大学学报（人文社会科学版）, 2018, 57(2): 151-160.
Ma Min. The Confucian Merchant Tradition in the Late Qing and the Early Republic and Its Contemporary Significance：A Case Study Centered on Zhang Jian and Jing Yuanshan. journal1, 2018, 57(2): 151-160.
2018, Vol. 57 
