The Treaty Port Economy in Modern China: Empirical Studies of Institutional Change and Economic Performance

✍ Scribed by Billy K. L. So; Ramon H. Myers

Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 291
Series: China Research Monograph
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

"Through eight empirical studies, this volume explores the interplay between institutional change and economic performance in a constructed model of the treaty port economy in late-Qing and Republican China"--Provided by publisher.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Notes to this edition
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Chart
1. Modern China's Treaty Port Economy in Institutional Perspective: An Introductory Essay - Billy K. L. So
PART ONE: Institutional Change and Economic Growth
2. The Rise of Modern Shanghai, 1900-1936: An Institutional Perspective - Debin Ma
3. The Shanghai Real Estate Market and Capital Investment, 1860-1936 - Tomoko Shiroyama
4. The Rice and Wheat Flour Market Economies in the Lower Yangzi, 1900-1936 - Kai-yiu Chan
5. The Regional Development of Wei County's Cotton Textile Market Economy, 1920-1937 - Hon-ming Yip
6. Chinese Farmer Rationality and the Agrarian Economy of the Lower Yangzi in the 1930s - James Kai-sing Kung, Daniel Yiu-fai Lee, and Nansheng Bai
PART TWO: Dynamics in Institutional Change
7. Traditional Land Rights in Hong Kong's New Territories - Kentaro Matsubara
8. Chinese Enterprises across Cultures: The Hong Kong Business Experience in the Early Twentieth Century - Stephanie Po-yin Chung
9. Legalization of Chinese Corporation, 1904-1929: Innovation and Continuity in Rules and Legislation - Billy K. L. So and Albert S. Lee
Bibliography
Index

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