The Golden Age of the Chinese Bourgeoisie 1911–1937

Favoured by the exceptional economic circumstances of the First World War and the immediate post-war years, Chinese entrepreneurs made their mark by modernising and establishing themselves as a business bourgeoisie. Focusing upon Shanghai, this study explores the astonishing growth of Western-style industry, commerce and banking during the Republic's first decade. Marie-Claire Bergere analyses how the bourgeoisie gradually constituted itself as a specific and coherent social class, with its own ideology and type of political action, built upon family solidarities and regional links; and she examines the relations between this class and the State, the Revolution and the West.

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• Date Published: May 2009
• format: Paperback
• isbn: 9780521110716
• length: 372 pages

• dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
• weight: 0.55kg
• availability: Available