| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 283 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Business, Innovation & Society in Asia |
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Business, Innovation & Society in Asia
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| Contents |
Content; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Romanization and Measures; 1. Introduction; 2. Chinese Business Institutions in a New Historical Environment; 3. The Making of a Business Empire, 1920-1937; 4. The Legacy of the Comprador System: Coal Distribution and Wharf Operations; 5. Business under Corporate Structure: The Shanghai Portland Cement Works; 6. Market, Monopoly, and the State: The Match-Manufacturing Enterprise; 7. The Attraction of Banking: The China Development Bank; 8. Conclusion: Zhangfang, Nucleus of Chinese Business; Notes; Selected Bibliography |
| Summary |
This book examines the relationship between business expansion and the structure of business in pre-war China through a careful and pioneering study of the enterprises of Liu Hongsheng during the 1920s and 1930s |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| In |
HKU Press digital editions |
| Subject |
Liu, Hongsheng, 1888-1956.
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Liu, Hongsheng, 1888-1956
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Liu, Hongsheng, 1888-1956 |
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Businessmen -- China -- Biography
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Business.
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businesses (business enterprises)
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business (commercial function)
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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Businessmen
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Commerce
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Economic history
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China -- Commerce -- History
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China -- Economic conditions -- 1912-1949.
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China
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007277069 |
| ISBN |
9789888052080 |
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988805208X |
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1282708708 |
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9781282708709 |
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9786612708701 |
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6612708700 |
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