Industrial Eden

Author : Brett Sheehan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674287185
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Industrial Eden written by Brett Sheehan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating study of the evolution of Chinese capitalism chronicles the fortunes of the Song family of North China under five successive authoritarian governments. Headed initially by Song Chuandian, who became rich by exporting hairnets to Europe and America in the early twentieth century, the family built a thriving business against long odds of rural poverty and political chaos. A savvy political operator, Song Chuandian prospered and kept local warlords at bay, but his career ended badly when he fell afoul of the new Nationalist government. His son Song Feiqing—inspired by the reformist currents of the May Fourth Movement—developed a utopian capitalist vision that industry would redeem China from foreign imperialism and cultural backwardness. He founded the Dongya Corporation in 1932 to manufacture wool knitting yarn and for two decades steered the company through a constantly changing political landscape—the Nationalists, then Japanese occupiers, then the Nationalists again, and finally Chinese Communists. Increasingly hostile governments, combined with inflation, foreign competition, and a restless labor force, thwarted his ambition to create an “Industrial Eden.” Brett Sheehan shows how the Song family engaged in eclectic business practices that bore the imprint of both foreign and traditional Chinese influences. Businesspeople came to expect much from increasingly intrusive states, but the position of private capitalists remained tenuous no matter which government was in control. Although private business in China was closely linked to the state, it was neither a handmaiden to authoritarianism nor a natural ally of democracy.

Author : Mark Fiege
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295989742
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irrigated Eden written by Mark Fiege and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irrigation came to the arid West in a wave of optimism about the power of water to make the desert bloom. Mark Fiege’s fascinating and innovative study of irrigation in southern Idaho’s Snake River valley describes a complex interplay of human and natural systems. Using vast quantities of labor, irrigators built dams, excavated canals, laid out farms, and brought millions of acres into cultivation. But at each step, nature rebounded and compromised the intended agricultural order. The result was a new and richly textured landscape made of layer upon layer of technology and intractable natural forces—one that engineers and farmers did not control with the precision they had anticipated. Irrigated Eden vividly portrays how human actions inadvertently helped to create a strange and sometimes baffling ecology. Winner of the Idaho Library Association Book Award, 1999 Winner of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award, Forest History Society, 1999-2000

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Total Pages : 976 pages
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Download or read book Industrial World written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Curtis Weaver
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
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Download or read book Low-flow Characteristics and Profiles for Selected Streams in the Roanoke River Basin, North Carolina written by J. Curtis Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1006 pages
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Author : Brett Sheehan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674967607
Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book Industrial Eden written by Brett Sheehan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the efforts of Song Chuandian and his son Song Feiqing to run the Dongya Corporation and other successful businesses in 20th century North China under Imperial, Nationalist, Japanese, the post-war Nationalists, and Communist governments, before retreating to Hong Kong.

Author : Juanjuan Peng
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498507026
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yudahua Business Group in China's Early Industrialization written by Juanjuan Peng and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By tracing the history of Yudahua from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, this study analyzes a successful inland business model among textile companies in modern China. The steady growth of this enterprise relied primarily on its strategy to focus on low-end markets and to locate new mills in underdeveloped interior regions. This strategy further allowed the enterprise to pioneer industrialization in its host localities, demonstrating a major social and economic impact on the local societies. At the same time, Yudahua’s unique team leadership pattern—five leading families shared its ownership and management—made the business an atypical family firm and allowed relatively easy institutional departure from Chinese social networks and adoption of Western corporate hierarchy. Therefore, by the late 1940s, Yudahua had gradually developed into a fairly integrated business group with a unified management structure and routinized connections between its member mills, which differed noticeably from the loose alliances normally found in other early twentieth-century Chinese business conglomerates.

Author : Vermont. Office of Secretary of State
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Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book Industrial Vermont written by Vermont. Office of Secretary of State and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rob van Tulder
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787563251
Total Pages : 440 pages
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Download or read book International Business in the Information and Digital Age written by Rob van Tulder and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information and digital age is shaped by a small number of multinational enterprises from a limited number of countries. This volume covers the latest insight from the International Business discipline on prevailing trends in business model evolution. It also discusses critical issues of regulation in the new information and digital space.

Author : Michael Gilmour
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1610973321
Total Pages : 189 pages
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Download or read book Eden's Other Residents written by Michael Gilmour and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible teems with nonhuman life, from its opening pages with God's creation of animals on the same day and out of the same earth as humans to its closing apocalyptic scenes of horses riding out of the sky. Animals are Adam's companions, Noah's shipmates, and Elijah's saviors. They are at the center of ancient Israel's religious life as sacrifices and yet, as Job discovers, beyond human dominion. It is an animal that saves Balaam from certain death by an angel's hand, and an animal that carries Jesus into Jerusalem. The Creator declares all of them good at the beginning, and since the Apostle Paul writes of God's eternal purposes for all things on earth, they are somehow part of a hoped-for eschatological restoration. So why are animals so often ignored in Christian moral discourse? In its theological thinking and faith-motivated praxis, human-centeredness typically results in the complete erasure of the nonhuman. This book argues that this exclusion of animals is problematic for those who see the Bible as authoritative for the religious life. Instead, biblical literature bears witness to a more inclusive understanding of moral duty and faith-motivated largesse that extends also to Eden's other residents.