The many elements of the fundamental antagonism of Market versus Oikos (= family, household or State) are analyzed and defined in Western and Chinese historical and present contexts. In this exercise, Max Weber is chosen as our "sparring partner" because of his Chinese and Western writings.

Hans Derks (Doctor of Social Sciences since 1986) has taught at several Dutch and foreign universities as a historian and sociologist. He has published many articles in outstanding scholarly journals and about 20 books, like Jew, Nomad or Pariah ... Hannah Arendt (Aksant, 2004) or the extensive History of the Opium Problem ... 1600-1950 (Brill, 2012).