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Autore |
Coble Parks M. <1946-> |
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Titolo |
Chinese capitalists in Japan's new order [[electronic resource] ] : the occupied lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 / / Parks M. Coble |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
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9786612356643 |
1-282-35664-X |
0-520-92829-6 |
1-59734-533-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (316 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 - Economic aspects - China - Shanghai |
Shanghai (China) Economic conditions |
Shanghai (China) Politics and government |
China Foreign relations Japan |
Japan Foreign relations China |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-274) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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