Tales from a Small North China Commercial Town
Via ZoomIn the early 1930s Gaoyang (in Hebei province) was the center of one of China’s best known rural industrial districts ...
In the early 1930s Gaoyang (in Hebei province) was the center of one of China’s best known rural industrial districts ...
The Making of China’s Post Office traces the origins and early development of the country’s modern postal system ...
Though the On Tai was a landmark as the first Chinese-owned and operated insurance company in Hong Kong (and one of the very first in China) ...
This talk discusses the new opportunities presented by “popular sources” available to scholars of business and economic activity in Qing and Republican-era China ...
Visit to the Hong Kong University Library: 11am-12pm ...
Visit to the Hong Kong University Library: 11am-12pm ...
When World War II ended Chiang Kai-shek seemed at the height of his power-the leader of Nationalist China ...
A managed foreign exchange regime has been integral to the Chinese economy since 1949, but how did it come about? ...
China Engineers, Ltd. (信昌機器工程公司) was a hybrid company founded in 1928 by the Eurasian entrepreneur William Charles Gomersall (1895 – 1960) ...
From its rise in the 1830s to its pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium trade was a guiding force in the Chinese political economy ...
My work examines Chinese women and business in twentieth-century China ...
Despite different arguments on how porous or rigid the boundary between Chinese and Africans is ...
The trading voyages to the Pearl River delta made by British, American and European ships in the eighteenth and early nineteenth ...
During the Qing, central Shanxi was home to millions of traveling merchants who established the empire’s most powerful business network ...
By tracing the history of Yudahua from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century ...
China today seems caught in a contradiction: a capitalist state led by a Communist party...
In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882 – 1955, Ying Jia Tan explores the fascinating politics of ...
Founded in 1840 following a rift between partners of Russell & Co., Augustine Heard & Co ...
Dan Du is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte ...
Republican Chinese banking elites have received considerable scholarly attention ...
This talk is based on a current book project and discusses the competition between foreign and ...
This paper examines the introduction of ‘scientific’ management in Republican Shanghai through its first translators, ...
In 1964, the Chinese Communist Party made a momentous policy decision. In response to rising tensions with the United States and Soviet Union, ...
In the Qing period (1644 – 1912), China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. ...
