Which of the following five firms or industries is most Chinese?Jui Fu Hsiang; Qing period tea trade; Maoist labor organization; Hai’er; Wanxiang
Which of the following five firms or industries is most Chinese? Rank all five from most Chinese to least Chinese and give reasons for each ranking. To answer this question, you will have to develop your own definition of what makes a firm or industry Chinese and then apply that definition to the five examples.

Jui Fu Hsiang
Qing period tea trade
Maoist labor organization
Hai’er
Wanxiang

The key to a good answer will be inclusion of the following four elements: 1) An argument, 2) A conceptual framework (feel free to use the Quick and Dirty Guides to help structure your conceptual framework), 3) Use of concrete examples (drawn from lectures and the case studies), 4) Consideration of the historical context.

You could use examples in the following manner, “As seen in the large debt loads of Japanese companies,” or “such as the collusion of political imperialists and business people in the nineteenth century opium trade,” or “as seen in the desire of the Mitsui Trading Company to eliminate middle men,” etc. As always, limit your examples to the course materials. Use of outside materials will result in a reduction in your grade.