Elisabeth Köll and Micah discuss Albert Feuerwerker, China’s Early Industrialization: Sheng Hsuan-huai (1844–1916) and Mandarin Enterprise (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958). 

For cutting-edge research on the history of business in modern China, take a look at Elisabeth's two books:

Elisabeth Köll, Railroads and the Transformation of China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019).

Elisabeth Köll, From Cotton Mill to Business Empire: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2004).

Some of the many sources on the career of Sheng Xuanhuai that were not available to Feuerwerker in the 1950s have been published in these volumes:

陈旭麓, 顾廷龙, 汪熙主编. 陈旭麓, 顾廷龙, 汪熙编 《盛宣怀档案资料》 (上海人民出版社, 2016).

盛宣懷 《盛宣懷實業函電稿》(香港中文大學中國文化研究所; 中央研究院近代史研究所, 1993).

上海图书馆编 《上海图书馆藏盛宣懷档案萃编》(上海古籍出版社, 2008).

北京大學歷史系近代史教研室整理 《盛宣懷未刊信稿》 (上海人民出版社,  2019).

香港中文大學文物館編 《香港中文大學藏盛宣懷檔案全編》 (上海人民出版社, 2021).

Works mentioned in the episode are listed below:

Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert Gardella, ed. Contract and Property in Early Modern China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004).

David Faure, China and Capitalism: A History of Business Enterprise in Modern China (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2006).

William C. Kirby, “China Unincorporated: Company Law and Business Enterprise in Twentieth-Century China,” The Journal of Asian Studies 54:1 (1995), pp. 43-63.

Marie-Claire Bergère, The Golden Age of the Chinese Bourgeoisie, 1911-1937 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

Thomas G. Rawski, Economic Growth in Prewar China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).

Albert Feuerwerker, “Presidential Address: Questions About China's Early Modern Economic History That I Wish I Could Answer,” The Journal of Asian Studies 51:4 (1992), pp. 757-769.