Chinese capitalists in Japan's new order : the occupied lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 / Parks M. Coble.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coble, Parks M., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Economic aspects--China--Shanghai.

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.

Shanghai (China)--Economic conditions.

Shanghai (China).

Shanghai (China)--Politics and government.

China--Foreign relations--Japan.

China.

Japan--Foreign relations--China.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Surviving the fall of Shanghai

Japan's new order

Establishing control : the North China and Central China Development companies

Puppet governments and Chinese capitalists

Individual firms and the war experience

The Rong family industrial enterprises and the war

Textile and consumer industries in the war era : beyond the Rong model

Chemical and match industrialists

China's rubber industry.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-274) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612356643

9781282356641

128235664X

9780520928299

0520928296

9781597345330

1597345334

OCLC:

228045679