So Jun-seop: How do Chinese people accumulate wealth?

*How the Chinese Accumulate Wealth* explains, using examples ranging from Sima Qian’s *Records of the Grand Historian* to Xiaomi smartphones, that China’s wealth is a “mainstream force possessing historical significance.” The author, So Jun-seop, views the Chinese as “people filled with the will to engage in their livelihoods and trading activities, harboring aspirations and desires to become wealthy,” and interprets China’s rapidly growing wealth not merely as a temporary phenomenon, but as a mainstream trend with a long history. In other words, he interprets this within the context of China’s commercial tradition, connecting it with Sima Qian—who accurately insightfully understood the human nature of economic activity and advocated and practiced liberation from artificial suppression—and Deng Xiaoping, who prioritized seeking truth from facts over inefficient ideologies. Along with this, he focuses on Confucianism, Chinese characters, Chinese history, and commerce as key elements for understanding China. This book provides a detailed introduction to the invaluable success strategies of great strategists and merchants, such as observing changes in the world, speed is important in business, sharing joys and sorrows with subordinates, choosing people wisely and seizing the right timing, taking what people discard and giving what people take, making one friend opens up a path, and moving beyond small immediate gains, allowing readers to see how China's wealth has been accumulated historically.

Korean title: 중국인은 어떻게 부를 축적하는가

Korean author: 소준섭

Korean publisher: 한길사

ISBN-13: 9788935669820