From Cotton Mill to Business Empire: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China
In: Harvard East Asian Monographs 229
In: Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, ISBN: 9789004407077
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In: Harvard East Asian Monographs 229
In: Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, ISBN: 9789004407077
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 63, S. 221-223
ISSN: 1835-8535
In: The economic history review, Band 63, Heft 1, S. 277-278
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: Business history, Band 51, Heft 6, S. 970-971
ISSN: 1743-7938
In: The economic history review, Band 59, Heft 4, S. 863-865
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: The China quarterly, Band 179, S. 837-840
ISSN: 1468-2648
The unstable banking sector presents great challenges to the economy in contemporary China: state-owned banks carry large portfolios of non-performing loans and China's increasingly affluent population produces a rising flow of deposits, but foreign banks are still seriously restricted in their ability to take deposits. Two recently published monographs on the history of banking in modern China put current economic and financial reforms in context by explaining the historical development of modern Chinese banks, their management, and political manoeuvres, especially in the old and new financial capital of China, Shanghai.In Banking in Modern China, Linsun Cheng focuses on banking institutions from the founding of the first modern Chinese bank in 1897 to the beginning of the Japanese invasion and occupation in 1937. During those 40 years, China encountered many political and economic crises impacting on the growth of banks. Whereas earlier studies have to some extent acknowledged the achievements of modern Chinese banks during the Republican period, Cheng's contribution lies in the documentation and analysis of these banks' financial performances, managerial structures, and business practices based on previously inaccessible archival records and bank documents held in Shanghai and Nanjing.
In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Heft 179, S. 837-839
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
In: The China journal: Zhongguo-yanjiu, Band 46, S. 232-234
ISSN: 1835-8535
In: Asia Pacific business review, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 111-128
ISSN: 1743-792X
In: The People's Republic of China at 60, S. 195-211
In: World Insurance, S. 472-494
In: Pacific affairs, Band 78, Heft 1, S. 131-132
ISSN: 0030-851X
In: Pacific affairs, Band 78, Heft 1, S. 123-124
ISSN: 0030-851X
How can capitalists' motivations during a Communist revolution be reliably documented and fully understood? Up to now, the answer to this question has generally eluded scholars who, for lack of nonofficial sources, have fallen back on Communist governments' official explanations. But the essays in this volume confirm that, at least in the case of the Communist revolution in China, it is finally possible to make new and fresh interpretations. By focusing closely on individuals and probing deeply into their thinking and experience, the authors of these essays have discovered a wide range of reasons for why Chinese capitalists did or did not choose to live and work under communism. The contributors to this volume have all concentrated on the dilemma for capitalists in China's Communist revolution. But their approach to their subject through archival research and rigorous analysis may also serve as a guide for future thinking about a variety of other historical figures. This approach is well worth adopting to explain how any members of society (not only capitalists) have resolved comparable dilemmas in all revolutions-the ones in China, Russia, Vietnam, Cuba, or anywhere else