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1 online resource (262 pages) |
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Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction: China, Cement and€Corporations; What Is a€Corporation?; How Are Governments and€Corporations Related?; What Is a€Joint Stock Company?; Did China Have Corporations?; Why Study Cement Corporations?; The Framework and€Structure of€This Book; Notes; Part 1: Analysing the Challenges to the Ancient Empire; Chapter 2: The Imperial System: Durable and€Resilient; The Challenge to€the€Imperial State Structure; The Restored Imperial State Structure; Confucian Industrialisation Without€Western Civil€Law |
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The Second Major Challenge: IntellectualThe Final Challenge: Corporate Personality; The Legal Situation in€Late Qing China; State and€Corporate Personality; The Combined Consequence of€the€Reforms, 1860-1910; Notes; Part 2: Transplanting the Corporate Idea into Imperial China; Chapter 3: New Corporate Powers: The€Accelerator of€Imperial Malfunction; The Cement Industry Begins; Cement Manufacturing Characteristics; Unincorporated Imperial Monopolies; Unincorporated Railways; Unincorporated Telegraphy and€Merchant Shipping; The Incorporated Coal Mines |
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Litigation: Fighting the€British CorporationLegislation: Making Chinese Corporations; Notes; Chapter 4: Yuan Shikai and€His Cement Corporation: The€Flight of€State Power; The British Connection; Repossessing the€Cement Plant; Cement and€Yuan Shikai; Overview of€an€Industrial Business; End of€Empire; Notes; Part 3: The Making of a Modern Incorporated Government; Chapter 5: Sun Yat-sen and€His Unincorporated Cement Works: Revolutionaries in€Business; The Birth of€the€Guangdong Cement Works; The Government-Owned Guangdong Cement Works; Sun Yat-sen's Takeover |
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The Creation of€the€Guangzhou City Council 1921: Legal Personality ArrivesThe Guangdong Cement Industry Before Sun Yat-sen's Death; After Sun Yat-sen's Death; Government in€Business I: Market Control; Regulations for€the€Banning of€Cement Sales 1925: Here Comes the€Law; The Guangzhou City Government of€1928: Lin Yungai Taking Charge; The Powerful Supplementary Procedures of€1928: Lin Yungai Squeezing; Initial Reactions to€the€Supplementary Procedures65: Lin Yungai Unmoved; Assaults on€the€Merchants in€1928 and€1929: Lin Yungai's Wrath; Government in€Business II: Selling Cement |
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The Prospect of€Guandu ShangbanA Wasted Effort?; Uncontrollable Merchants; Sun Yat-sen in€Business: A€Reflection; Notes; Chapter 6: The Pearl River Bridge: Recovering State Power; Recovering State Power I: The€City is the€Corporation; The Theoretical Debate; Municipal Enterprises: Shiban; Recovering State Power II: Urban Modernisation; Recovering State Power III: Mayor Cheng Tiangu's Tactics; Executing the€Two-Year Plan; Recovering State Power IV: The€Symbol of€a€Modern State; Recovering State Power V: Provincial Industrialisation; A Chaotic End; The Power of€the€Pearl River Bridge |
| Summary |
This text addresses the corporate causes of the collapse of the Qing dynasty and the emergence of modern Republican China. Weaving together political, legal and business histories, it focuses on the key relationship between China, cement and corporations, and demonstrates how the particular circumstances of cement manufacturing in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China serve to illuminate key aspects of Chinese political economy and illustrate the importance of legal frameworks in the emergence of industrial enterprises. Examining the centrality of legal personality in China's historical story, seen from the angle of cement manufacturing corporations, it offers an alternative historical perspective on the making of the modern Chinese States and delves into the involvement of larger-than-life historical figures of modern China such as Yuan Shikai, Chiang Kai-shek and the revolutionary and the father of modern China, Sun Yat-sen, in the unfolding of these events |
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Epilogue: Sun Yat-sen's Legacy |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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History.
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Law -- History.
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Law -- Philosophy.
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Law.
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History
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history (discipline)
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History
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Law
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Law -- Philosophy
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China -- History.
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China
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789811026607 |
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9811026602 |
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