LEADER 04095nam 22006854a 450 001 9910455657503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612356643 010 $a1-282-35664-X 010 $a0-520-92829-6 010 $a1-59734-533-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520928299 035 $a(CKB)111087027178646 035 $a(EBL)223570 035 $a(OCoLC)228045679 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000121463 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11910133 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000121463 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10110934 035 $a(PQKB)11121953 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055858 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223570 035 $a(OCoLC)52842306 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30638 035 $a(DE-B1597)519199 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520928299 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223570 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10048763 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235664 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027178646 100 $a20020806d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChinese capitalists in Japan's new order$b[electronic resource] $ethe occupied lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 /$fParks M. Coble 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (316 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-23268-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-274) and index. 327 $aSurviving 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. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aSino-Japanese War, 1937-1945$xEconomic aspects$zChina$zShanghai 607 $aShanghai (China)$xEconomic conditions 607 $aShanghai (China)$xPolitics and government 607 $aChina$xForeign relations$zJapan 607 $aJapan$xForeign relations$zChina 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSino-Japanese War, 1937-1945$xEconomic aspects 676 $a330.951/132042 700 $aCoble$b Parks M.$f1946-$01038330 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455657503321 996 $aChinese capitalists in Japan's new order$92459847 997 $aUNINA