Over the past three decades, China has undergone a historic transformation. Once illegal, its private business sector now comprises 30 million businesses employing more than 200 million people and accounting for half of China's Gross Domestic Product. Yet despite the optimistic predictions of...

The debates surrounding women's relationship tomoney-making and investment in the late nineteenth century, as well as thehighly gendered nature of the process of capitalist accumulation, are the focusof this study. Following a discussion of the social and structural constraintson...