Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order

2003-04 Business & Economics

Author : Parks Coble
Release : 2003-04
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 682/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order by : Parks Coble

Download or read book Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order written by Parks Coble. This book was released on 2003-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order

2003-04-01 History

Author : Parks Coble
Release : 2003-04-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 296/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order by : Parks Coble

Download or read book Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order written by Parks Coble. This book was released on 2003-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, 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.

The Politics of Time in China and Japan

2022-06-24 History

Author : Viren Murthy
Release : 2022-06-24
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 514/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis The Politics of Time in China and Japan by : Viren Murthy

Download or read book The Politics of Time in China and Japan written by Viren Murthy. This book was released on 2022-06-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of texts and using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume shows how Chinese and Japanese intellectuals mobilized the past to create a better future. It is especially significant today given a world where, amidst tensions within Asia and the rise of China, East Asian intellectuals and governments constantly find new political meanings in their traditions. The essays illuminate how throughout Chinese and Japanese history, thinkers constantly weaved together nationalism, internationalism and a politics of time. This volume explores a broad range of subjects such as premodern and early modern attempts to conjure a politics of Confucianism, twentieth-century Japanese Marxist interpretations of Buddhism and Japanese and Chinese endeavors to imagine a new world order. In sum, this book shows us why understanding East Asian pasts are essential to making sense of ideological trends in contemporary China and Japan. For example, without understanding Confucianism and how modern intellectuals in China grappled with this body of thought, we would be unable to make sense of the Chinese government’s current promotion of the Chinese classics. This book will interest students and scholars of political science, history, Asian studies, sociology and philosophy.

The Crown and the Capitalists

2019-11-18 History

Author : Wasana Wongsurawat
Release : 2019-11-18
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 262/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis The Crown and the Capitalists by : Wasana Wongsurawat

Download or read book The Crown and the Capitalists written by Wasana Wongsurawat. This book was released on 2019-11-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia, the Kingdom of Thailand—or Siam, as it was formerly known—has succeeded in transforming itself into a rival modern nation-state over the last two centuries. Recent historiography has placed progress—or lack thereof—toward Western-style liberal democracy at the center of Thailand’s narrative, but that view underestimates the importance of the colonial context. In particular, a long-standing relationship with China and the existence of a large and important Chinese diaspora within Thailand have shaped development at every stage. As the emerging nation struggled against colonial forces in Southeast Asia, ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs were neither a colonial force against whom Thainess was identified, nor had they been able to fully assimilate into Thai society. Wasana Wongsurawat demonstrates that the Kingdom of Thailand’s transformation into a modern nation-state required the creation of a national identity that justified not only the hegemonic rule of monarchy but also the involvement of the ethnic Chinese entrepreneurial class upon whom it depended. Her revisionist view traces the evolution of this codependent relationship through the twentieth century, as Thailand struggled against colonial forces in Southeast Asia, found itself an ally of Japan in World War II, and reconsidered its relationship with China in the postwar era.

Saving the Nation

2010-02-15 History

Author : Margherita Zanasi
Release : 2010-02-15
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 745/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Saving the Nation by : Margherita Zanasi

Download or read book Saving the Nation written by Margherita Zanasi. This book was released on 2010-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic modernity is so closely associated with nationhood that it is impossible to imagine a modern state without an equally modern economy. Even so, most people would have difficulty defining a modern economy and its connection to nationhood. In Saving the Nation, Margherita Zanasi explores this connection by examining the first nation-building attempt in China after the fall of the empire in 1911. Challenging the assumption that nations are products of technological and socioeconomic forces, Zanasi argues that it was notions of what constituted a modern nation that led the Nationalist nation-builders to shape China’s institutions and economy. In their reform effort, they confronted several questions: What characterized a modern economy? What role would a modern economy play in the overall nation-building effort? And how could China pursue economic modernization while maintaining its distinctive identity? Zanasi expertly shows how these questions were negotiated and contested within the Nationalist Party. Silenced in the Mao years, these dilemmas are reemerging today as a new leadership once again redefines the economic foundation of the nation.

Popular eBooks

Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order

Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order

The Politics of Time in China and Japan

The Crown and the Capitalists

Saving the Nation

You may also like...