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The Making of the Modern Chinese State : Cement, Legal Personality and Industry.
This text addresses the corporate causes of the collapse of the Qing dynasty and the emergence of modern Republican China. Weaving together political, legal and business histories, it focuses on the key relationship between China, cement and corporations, and demonstrates how the particular circumst...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
Springer Singapore,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction: China, Cement andÈCorporations; What Is aÈCorporation?; How Are Governments andÈCorporations Related?; What Is aÈJoint Stock Company?; Did China Have Corporations?; Why Study Cement Corporations?; The Framework andÈStructure ofÈThis Book; Notes; Part 1: Analysing the Challenges to the Ancient Empire; Chapter 2: The Imperial System: Durable andÈResilient; The Challenge toẗheÏmperial State Structure; The Restored Imperial State Structure; Confucian Industrialisation WithoutẄestern CivilÈLaw.
- The Second Major Challenge: IntellectualThe Final Challenge: Corporate Personality; The Legal Situation inÈLate Qing China; State andÈCorporate Personality; The Combined Consequence ofẗheÈReforms, 1860-1910; Notes; Part 2: Transplanting the Corporate Idea into Imperial China; Chapter 3: New Corporate Powers: TheÄccelerator ofÏmperial Malfunction; The Cement Industry Begins; Cement Manufacturing Characteristics; Unincorporated Imperial Monopolies; Unincorporated Railways; Unincorporated Telegraphy andÈMerchant Shipping; The Incorporated Coal Mines.
- Litigation: Fighting theÈBritish CorporationLegislation: Making Chinese Corporations; Notes; Chapter 4: Yuan Shikai andḦis Cement Corporation: TheÈFlight ofÈState Power; The British Connection; Repossessing theÈCement Plant; Cement andŸuan Shikai; Overview ofänÏndustrial Business; End ofËmpire; Notes; Part 3: The Making of a Modern Incorporated Government; Chapter 5: Sun Yat-sen andḦis Unincorporated Cement Works: Revolutionaries inÈBusiness; The Birth ofẗheÈGuangdong Cement Works; The Government-Owned Guangdong Cement Works; Sun Yat-sen's Takeover.
- The Creation ofẗheÈGuangzhou City Council 1921: Legal Personality ArrivesThe Guangdong Cement Industry Before Sun Yat-sen's Death; After Sun Yat-sen's Death; Government inÈBusiness I: Market Control; Regulations forẗheÈBanning ofÈCement Sales 1925: Here Comes theÈLaw; The Guangzhou City Government ofÈ1928: Lin Yungai Taking Charge; The Powerful Supplementary Procedures ofÈ1928: Lin Yungai Squeezing; Initial Reactions toẗheÈSupplementary Procedures65: Lin Yungai Unmoved; Assaults onẗheÈMerchants inÈ1928 andÈ1929: Lin Yungai's Wrath; Government inÈBusiness II: Selling Cement.
- The Prospect ofÈGuandu ShangbanA Wasted Effort?; Uncontrollable Merchants; Sun Yat-sen inÈBusiness: AÈReflection; Notes; Chapter 6: The Pearl River Bridge: Recovering State Power; Recovering State Power I: TheÈCity is theÈCorporation; The Theoretical Debate; Municipal Enterprises: Shiban; Recovering State Power II: Urban Modernisation; Recovering State Power III: Mayor Cheng Tiangu's Tactics; Executing theÈTwo-Year Plan; Recovering State Power IV: TheÈSymbol ofäÈModern State; Recovering State Power V: Provincial Industrialisation; A Chaotic End; The Power ofẗheÈPearl River Bridge.