Chinese Capitalists In Japans New Order

Author : Parks Coble
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520928296
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order written by Parks Coble and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this probing and original study, Parks M. Coble examines the devastating impact of Japan's invasion and occupation of the lower Yangzi on China's emerging modern business community. Arguing that the war gravely weakened Chinese capitalists, Coble demonstrates that in occupied areas the activities of businessmen were closer to collaboration than to heroic resistance. He shows how the war left an important imprint on the structure and culture of Chinese business enterprise by encouraging those traits that had allowed it to survive in uncertain and dangerous times. Although historical memory emphasizes the entrepreneurs who followed the Nationalists armies to the interior, most Chinese businessmen remained in the lower Yangzi area. If they wished to retain any ownership of their enterprises, they were forced to collaborate with the Japanese and the Wang Jingwei regime in Nanjing. Characteristics of business in the decades prior to the war, including a preference for family firms and reluctance to become public corporations, distrust of government, opaqueness of business practices, and reliance of personal connections (guanxi) were critical to the survival of enterprises during the war and were reinforced by the war experience. Through consideration of the broader implications of the many responses to this complex era, Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order makes a substantial contribution to larger discussions of the dynamics of World War II and of Chinese business culture.

Author : Francis Clifford Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan's New Order in East Asia written by Francis Clifford Jones and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian C. Folk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134389310
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnic Business written by Brian C. Folk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of ethnic Chinese business in Southeast Asia in catalyzing economic development has been hotly debated - and often misunderstood - throughout cycles of boom and bust. This book critically examines some of the key features attributed to Chinese business: business-government relations, the family firm, trust and networks, and supposed 'Asian' values. The in-depth case studies that feature in the book reveal considerable diversity among these firms and the economic and political networks in which they manoeuvre. With contributions from leading scholars and under the impressive editorship of Jomo and Folk, Ethnic Business is a well-written, important contribution to not only students of Asian business and economics, but also professionals with an interest in those areas.

Author : William Crane Johnstone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States and Japan's New Order written by William Crane Johnstone and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margherita Zanasi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226978745
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saving the Nation written by Margherita Zanasi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic modernity is so closely associated with nationhood that it is impossible to imagine a modern state without an equally modern economy. Even so, most people would have difficulty defining a modern economy and its connection to nationhood. In Saving the Nation, Margherita Zanasi explores this connection by examining the first nation-building attempt in China after the fall of the empire in 1911. Challenging the assumption that nations are products of technological and socioeconomic forces, Zanasi argues that it was notions of what constituted a modern nation that led the Nationalist nation-builders to shape China’s institutions and economy. In their reform effort, they confronted several questions: What characterized a modern economy? What role would a modern economy play in the overall nation-building effort? And how could China pursue economic modernization while maintaining its distinctive identity? Zanasi expertly shows how these questions were negotiated and contested within the Nationalist Party. Silenced in the Mao years, these dilemmas are reemerging today as a new leadership once again redefines the economic foundation of the nation.

Author : Kent G Deng
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136655131
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Political Economy in Modern Times written by Kent G Deng and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Chinese political economy spanning from 1800 to to the dawn of the 21st century, shedding new light on our understanding of the reasons and impact of socio-political and socio-economic changes in China. Crossing over the three disciplines of history, politics and economics, the analyses China’s ideology, politics, and the economy using state-building as the key theme and puts the emphasis on China’s internal factors and mechanisms instead of the influence from Western imperialism or Japanese colonialism. It pays close attention to the movers and shakers inside Chinese society and carefully reveals historical contingencies which lend the reader a unique and radically different re-interpretation of China’s recent history.

Author : David P. Barrett
Publisher : Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804737681
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Collaboration with Japan, 1932-1945 written by David P. Barrett and published by Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent release of archival material in China and Taiwan has made possible this book, the first comprehensive treatment of Sino-Japanese collaboration, at the level of both state and of society.

Author : Sherman Cochran
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942242727
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Capitalist Dilemma in China's Cultural Revolution written by Sherman Cochran and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Karl Gerth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108882641
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unending Capitalism written by Karl Gerth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What forces shaped the twentieth-century world? Capitalism and communism are usually seen as engaged in a fight-to-the-death during the Cold War. With the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party aimed to end capitalism. Karl Gerth argues that despite the socialist rhetoric of class warfare and egalitarianism, Communist Party policies actually developed a variety of capitalism and expanded consumerism. This negated the goals of the Communist Revolution across the Mao era (1949–1976) down to the present. Through topics related to state attempts to manage what people began to desire - wristwatches and bicycles, films and fashion, leisure travel and Mao badges - Gerth challenges fundamental assumptions about capitalism, communism, and countries conventionally labeled as socialist. In so doing, his provocative history of China suggests how larger forces related to the desire for mass-produced consumer goods reshaped the twentieth-century world and remade people's lives.

Author : Elisabeth Köll
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684173914
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Cotton Mill to Business Empire written by Elisabeth Köll and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The demise of state-owned enterprises, the transformation of collectives into shareholding cooperatives, and the creation of investment opportunities through stock markets indicate China’s movement from a socialist, state-controlled economy toward a socialist market economy. Yet, contrary to high expectations that China’s new enterprises will become like corporations in capitalist countries, management often remains under the control of the onetime bureaucrats who ran the socialist enterprises.The concepts, definitions, and interpretations of property rights, corporate structures, and business practices in contemporary China have historical, institutional, and cultural roots. In tracing the development under founder Zhang Jian (1853–1926) and his successors of the Dasheng Cotton Mill in Nantong into a business group encompassing, among other concerns, cotton, flour, and oil mills, land development companies, and shipping firms, the author documents the growth of regional enterprises as local business empires from the 1890s until the foundation of the People’s Republic in 1949. She focuses on the legal and managerial evolution of limited-liability firms in China, particularly issues of control and accountability; the introduction and management of industrial work in the countryside; and the integration and interdependency of local, national, and international markets in Republican China."