Modern China’s Network Revolution: Chambers of Commerce and Sociopolitical Change in the Early Twentieth Century

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Stanford University Press, 2011年6月27日 - 289 頁
Chambers of commerce developed in China as a key part of its sociopolitical changes. In 1902, the first Chinese chamber of commerce appeared in Shanghai. By the time the Qing dynasty ended, over 1,000 general chambers, affiliated chambers, and branch chambers had been established throughout China.

In this new work, author Zhongping Chen examines Chinese chambers of commerce and their network development across Lower Yangzi cities and towns, as well as the nationwide arena. He details how they achieved increasing integration, and how their collective actions deeply influenced nationalistic, reformist, and revolutionary movements. His use of network analysis reveals how these chambers promoted social integration beyond the bourgeoisie and other elites, and helped bring society and the state into broader and more complicated interactions than existing theories of civil society and public sphere suggest. With both historical narrative and theoretical analysis of the long neglected local chamber networks, this study offers a keen historical understanding of the interaction of Chinese society, business, and politics in the early twentieth century. It also provides new knowledge produced from network theory within the humanities and social sciences.
 

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Introduction
1
1 Guilds and Elites in the Face of Domestic and Foreign Challenges
18
2 Elite and Official Interactive Movements toward Chambers of Commerce
47
3 Changes in Organizational Composition and Interrelations
76
4 The Expansion of Associational Networks and Influences
109
5 Political Maneuvers in Commercial and Industrial Affairs
138
6 Joint Actions in the Constitutional and Revolutionary Movements
169
7 Nationwide Chamber Networks and the Republican Governments
199
Appendix 1 General Chambers of Commerce in the Lower Yangzi Region 1904 1911
217
Appendix 2 Affiliated Chambers of Commerce in the Lower Yangzi Region 1904 1911
219
Appendix 3 Branch Chambers of Commerce in the Lower Yangzi Region 1906 1911
223
Notes
225
Character List
253
Bibliography
261
Index
279
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Conclusion
208

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Zhongping Chen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

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