TY - JOUR
AU - Yeh, Wen-Hsin
AB - Corporate Space, Communal Time: Everyday Life in Shanghai's Bank of China WEN-HSIN YEH THIS ARTICLE OFFERS A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS of the way several hundred ordinary male employees of Shanghai's Bank of China lived their daily lives during a few years of negotiated peace in the Republican period (1911-1949).1 None of these men made names for themselves individually. As a social type, however, they represented a new breed on the Chinese landscape unique to the modern metropolis: the hard-working, educated, career employees who held professional positions in a large corporate organization. Although far from being the majority of the city's middle class, these men worked in businesses and professions that lent substance to Shanghai's dominance of financial and manufacturing industries in China. Hardly among the rich in Shanghai, their tastes and spending nonetheless sustained the city's department­ store culture, entertainment businesses, and publishing industry, which in turn contributed to Shanghai's claim to be China's capital of fashion as well as of opinion. Visible in daily life as tram passengers, shoppers, moviegoers, newspaper readers, sports participants, race-course spectators, and restaurant patrons, they occupied the middle sector that bridged the vast social space separating the city's small financial elites from its multitude 
TI - Corporate Space, Communal Time: Everyday Life in Shanghai's Bank of China
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/100.1.97
DA - 1995-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/corporate-space-communal-time-everyday-life-in-shanghai-s-bank-of-viiELHGUZ4
SP - 97
EP - 122
VL - 100
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -