登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
Shanghai Old-style Banks (chʻien-chuang), 1800-1935
Andrea Lee McElderry
其他書名
A Traditional Institution in a Changing Society
出版Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1976
主題Business & Economics / Banks & BankingSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / General
ISBN08926402519780892640256
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uCwxAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The Chinese term ch'ien-chuang translates literally as "copper shop" denoting a place for the exchange of copper monies. In Shanghai, the term ch'ien-chuang referred to a number of financial institutions which performed different functions. Some were simply exchange shops as their name implied, while others, the subjects of this study, served as commercial banks. They accepted deposits, made loans to merchants, and issued commercial paper including promissory notes and bills of exchange. The Shanghai hui-hua chi'ien-chuang are an example of a traditional institution which was strengthened by contact with modern outside influence rather than destroyed by it. When their position weakened seriously in the early 1930s, the cause could not be directly attributed to the "Western impact." The direct blow to the ch'ien-chuang power came from the Nationalist Government. Indirectly, the forces set in motion by the Western impact contributed to the weakening of the ch'ien-chuang. Shanghai Old-Style Banks focuses on these traditional institutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from around 1800 to 1935, and attempts to understand the phenomenon of a traditional institution growing in strength in the midst of "modern" influence. [1]