Ebook: The Golden Age of the Chinese Bourgeoisie 1911-1937
- Series: Studies in modern capitalism / Etudes sur le capitalisme moderne
- Year: 1989
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press / Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme
- Language: English
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Favoured by the exceptional economic circumstances of the First World War and the immediate post-war years, Chinese entrepreneurs made their mark by modernising and establishing themselves as a business bourgeoisie. Focusing upon Shanghai, this study explores the astonishing growth of Western-style industry, commerce and banking during the Republic's first decade. Marie-Claire Bergere analyses how the bourgeoisie gradually constituted itself as a specific and coherent social class, with its own ideology and type of political action, built upon family solidarities and regional links; and she examines the relations between this class and the State, the Revolution and the West.
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