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From cotton mill to business empire : the emergence of regional enterprises in modern China /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Köll, Elisabeth, 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center, [2003]
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 229.
Subjects:
Da sheng sha chang (China) > History.
Textile industry > China > Jiangsu Sheng > History.
Business enterprises > China > Jiangsu Sheng > History.
Industries > China > Jiangsu Sheng > History.
Corporations > China > Jiangsu Sheng > History.
Businesspeople > China > Jiangsu Sheng > History.
Jiangsu Sheng (China) > Economic conditions.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • I: Setting the scene
  • 1. Regional enterprise and the corporation as a concept
  • 2. National and regional context
  • II: Factories in the countryside
  • 3. Setting up the mills
  • 4. The realities of industrial work
  • III: The characteristics of big business
  • 5. The corporate structure
  • 6. Business performance and crisis management
  • IV: Enterprise and region
  • 7. Socioeconomic control beyond the factories
  • 8. Enterprise in transition: Dasheng after Zhang Jian
  • Beyond 1949: modern enterprises and regional businesses in China.