The Late Qing Dynasty’s Daddy Contest: Crush the Foreign Merchants and Conquer the World

Starting with a broken bowl, he launches a group-buying business in 1900! “Foreign goods are expensive? Then let’s buy domestic goods together! The yamen has too much power? Then let everyday necessities speak for themselves!” Rice, cloth, matches... Prices so low the foreign firms are hopping mad, and a business model so novel the guilds are up in arms.