Patriots' game : Yongli Chemical Industries 1917-1953 / by Kwan Man Bun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bun, Kwan Man, author.

Series:

China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 35.

China Studies, 1570-1344 ; Volume 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemical industry.

Chemical industry--China.

China--History--20th century.

China.

Jiu da jing yan gong si.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

“When thinking about modern China’s chemical industry, forget not Fan Xudong,” so declared Mao Zedong publicly after 1949. Although Mao might have united front politics in mind when invoking Fan as a paragon of the national bourgeoisie, why would the chairman praise a champion of private enterprise? How did Fan Xudong and his colleagues build Yongli from scratch into one of the largest industrial conglomerates in modern China amid predatory foreign competition and domestic strife? What were his secrets of success? Drawing from company documents, government archives, and personal correspondences, this book traces Yongli’s birth, growth, nationalization, and how Fan and his colleagues pursued a third path of national development between for-profit private enterprise and state ownership.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

Founding

Salt In, Salt Out

Tolerable for All?

The Politics and Economics of Ammonium Sulphate

Creative Financing and Reorganization

At War

Dilemmas

Crisis and Nationalization

Postscript

Appendix I Yongli Chemical Industries: Capitalization, 1917–1937

Appendix II Yongli Chemical Industries: Bank Loans, Credit Line, Net Profit, and Dividend 1917–1937

Appendix III Loans and Credit Line Diverted from Jiuda to Yongli

Appendix IVA English Soda Ash Exports and Sales to Asia and Australia, 1901–1941

Appendix IVB China Customs Returns: Soda Ash Imported, 1902–1937

Appendix V Yongli and ICI Sales in China, 1924–1937

Appendix VI Yongli Soda Ash Sales by Region, 1928–1937

Appendix VII Summary of Yongli Wartime Losses

Appendix VIIIA Yongli (Tanggu) Soda Ash Production, 1946–1953

Appendix VIIIB Yongli (Nanjing) Ammonium Sulphate Production, 1937–1953

Appendix IX Yongli Chemical Industries Financial Summary, 1946–1953

Glossary

Selected Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebrary, viewed December 9, 2016).

OCLC:

972640082

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004336384 DOI