Overview
- Discusses the general relationship between China, cement and corporations.
- Offers a comparative study of the importance of legal personality in modern economic development.
- Considers the involvement of key figures such as Yuan Shikai, Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Yat-sen.
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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 circumstances of cement manufacturing in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China serve to illuminate key aspects of Chinese political economy and illustrate the importance of legal frameworks in the emergence of industrial enterprises. Examining the centrality of legal personality in China’s historical story, seen from the angle of cement manufacturing corporations, it offers an alternative historical perspective on the making of the modern Chinese States and delves into the involvement of larger-than-life historical figures of modern China such as Yuan Shikai, Chiang Kai-shek and the revolutionary and the father of modern China, Sun Yat-sen, in the unfolding of these events.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Analysing the Challenges to the Ancient Empire
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Transplanting the Corporate Idea into Imperial China
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The Making of a Modern Incorporated Government
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The Making of Modern Incorporated Companies
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Humphrey Ko is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong and an Associate at the University of Oxford China Centre. With a DPhil in Modern Chinese History from University of Oxford, UK, he has lectured in Chinese studies at the Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Leeds, UK and taught Chinese history in the Institute for Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Making of the Modern Chinese State
Book Subtitle: Cement, Legal Personality and Industry
Authors: Humphrey Ko
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2660-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2659-1Published: 20 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9677-8Published: 07 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2660-7Published: 08 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of China, Legal History, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History