Surviving 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
Summary
Examining the impact of Japan's invasion and occupation of the lower Yangzi on China's emerging modern business community, this text argues that the war gravely weakened Chinese capitalists showing that in occupied areas the activities of businessmen were closer to collaboration than resistance
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-274) and index
