TY - JOUR
AU - Bergere, Marie-Claire
AB - 880 Reviews of Books and Films Zhaojin Ji's book is one of three books in English on enterprises in the late nineteenth century. Ji asserts modern Chinese banking history published in 2003. that the policy "embodied the political idea of main­ The other two, Cheng Linsun's Banking in Modern taining central government control over business" (p. but China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the 64) without considering the less comprehensive Development of Chinese Banks, 1897-1937 and Brett common view that it was a pragmatic plan intended to Sheehan's Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks, and develop modern, capital-intensive defense industries why is State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin, ask within a traditional institutional framework. Nor "modern Chinese banks"-banks organized according there discussion of the fact that, at that time, central to Western models-succeeded in spite of political and political authority had been significantly weakened by economic instability. Ji's book is broader in scope and the mid-century Taiping Rebellion and the policy was "modern banking" includes the three types of banks­ implemented mainly through the initiative of provin­ native, foreign, and modern Chinese-found in Shang­ cial officials. hai during the late nineteenth and early twentieth Material for the book comes from Chinese, 
TI - Linsun Cheng. Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897–1937. (Cambridge Modern China Series.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 277. $65.00
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/109.3.880
DA - 2004-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/linsun-cheng-banking-in-modern-china-entrepreneurs-professional-MXeT5tZAvT
SP - 880
EP - 881
VL - 109
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
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