Author : Marie-Claire Bergère
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521110716
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Book Synopsis The Golden Age of the Chinese Bourgeoisie 1911-1937 by : Marie-Claire Bergère
Download or read book The Golden Age of the Chinese Bourgeoisie 1911-1937 written by Marie-Claire Bergère and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.