2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A Research on How Japanese and Chinese Merchants viewed the ideas Concern GI RI and KOU SHI

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21720030
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	History of thought
Research Institution	Yokohama National University
Principal Investigator	YU Chen 横浜国立大学, 都市イノベーション研究院, 准教授 (70433373)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	東洋・日本思想史 / 比較思想史
Research Abstract	In order to resolve the ethical issues occurring nowadays in business, this research aims to outline and compare the traditional merchant values in Japan and China, by examining how they managed the relationship between morality and benefit, as well as between public and private. First of all, it was found that the traditional views of the state in China were quite different from that in Japan. Then, the position held by the merchants and the commercial organizations at the time, towards the local society and the central government, as well as towards the foreign countries was thoroughly discussed.

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