Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=ytcr20 Chinese Historians ISSN: 1043-643X (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ytcr19 The Four Groups (Simin ) and Farmer-Merchant Antithesis in Early Imperial China Victor Cunrui Xiong To cite this article: Victor Cunrui Xiong (1995) The Four Groups (Simin ) and Farmer-Merchant Antithesis in Early Imperial China, Chinese Historians, 8:1-2, 85-144, DOI: 10.1080/1043643X.1995.11876919 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/1043643X.1995.11876919 Published online: 25 May 2017. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 3 View related articles