ABSTRACT
The Jin (Jin refers to Shanxi Province) merchants have a very important position in the history of Chinese business. The Jin merchants is a business course that investigates Shanxi businessmen and their business activities. As a local characteristic of the business curriculum of China, this course is taught in a number of universities. Taking the development of the new Jin merchants in Toronto as a breakthrough point, this article expounds the necessity of teaching the internationalization of the Jin merchants and puts forward the corresponding development strategies from the aspects of teaching objectives, curriculum, and the building of an international cooperation platform of teaching and scientific research. This study can promote teaching the internationalization of the Jin merchants and provide a chance for more people to understand the teaching of the Jin merchants.
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Juanjuan Guo
Juanjuan Guo, PhD, is a teacher at the Research Institute of Shanxi Merchants, Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, Taiyuan, PR China. She holds a Master’s degree in Specialized History and a PhD in the Modern History of China from Shanxi University. Her current research field is the family history of merchants. She has published more than 10 refereed journal articles and a book—Shanxi Merchants in Mongolia and Economic Modernization of Inner Mongolia City (1860-1937): An Investigation that Took Guisui and Baotou City as the Center.