The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Wenzhou Entrepreneurs in Milan and in Their Homeland = $Lchi新教伦理与企业家精神∶意大利米兰的温州商人
Despite challenges from the government because of its large Protestant population, Wenzhou has come to be known as “the Jerusalem of China.” Many of the city’s entrepreneurial “boss Christians” (laoban jidutu 老板基督徒) have exported their successful businesses overseas. The empirical findings presented...
| Published in: | Review of Religion and Chinese Society |
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| Subtitles: | $Lchi新教伦理与企业家精神∶意大利米兰的温州商人 |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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| In: |
Review of Religion and Chinese Society
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| Further subjects: | B
资本主义
B Work Ethic B 新教 B 工作伦理 B China B 老板基督徒 B Protestantism B 中国 B 马克斯・韦伯 B Weber, Max B boss Christians B Capitalism |
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| Summary: | Despite challenges from the government because of its large Protestant population, Wenzhou has come to be known as “the Jerusalem of China.” Many of the city’s entrepreneurial “boss Christians” (laoban jidutu 老板基督徒) have exported their successful businesses overseas. The empirical findings presented in this paper are part of an in-depth, comparative, qualitative study of Chinese entrepreneurs working in Milan, Italy. Treating the house churches as a sect and examining the nature of the “calling” (yi xiang 异象) described by boss Christians provides an opportunity to reconsider Max Weber’s discussion of the so-called Protestant ethic and the concept of Beruf (calling). The interviews were conducted among Protestant and non-Christian business owners active in Milan’s Chinatown and other areas in Italy, and also during fieldwork in their homeland in China. The study points out the connection between their business ethic and Protestantism. |
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| ISSN: | 2214-3955 |
| Contains: | In: Review of Religion and Chinese Society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22143955-00401005 |