Field Research on “Chengwenhou”, One of the Small and Medium Businesses in Beijing Listed in National Intangible Heritage in 2006–2012
摘要
From 2006 to 2016, I collaborated with Professor Lankry from France on a 10-year investigation into small and medium-sized businesses. We collected historical materials on Beijing’s commerce, including oral histories from merchants and merchant families, and examined merchant activities and social networks from 1912 to the period before the public-private partnerships in the 1950s. The primary goal of this investigation was not economically oriented but rather to study the commercial history of Beijing and the transmission of professional knowledge.