Modern China's network revolution : chambers of commerce and sociopolitical change in the early twentieth century
Zhongping Chen (Author)
Chen (history, U. of Victoria, British Columbia) began by looking at the more than 200 chambers of commerce that appeared between 1902 and 1912 in the Lower Yangzi region around Shanghai, then widened his study to encompass a longer history of late Qing and early Republican China, and other parts of the country that the growing network spread to. They were the first legally sanctioned associations in Chinese history, he says, and sparked a revolutionary change in the sociopolitical relations in the world's most populous country. Among his perspectives are elite and official interactive movement towards chambers of commerce, the expansion of associational networks and influences, and nationwide chamber networks and the Republican government. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Print Book, English, 2011
Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 2011