Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870-1919 (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)

"In this wide-ranging study, Ghassan Moazzin sheds critical new light on the history of foreign banks in late nineteenth- and early twentieth century China, a time that saw a substantial influx of foreign financial institutions into China and a rapid increase of both China's foreign trade and its interactions with international capital markets. Drawing on a broad range of German, English, Japanese and Chinese primary sources, including business records, government documents and personal papers, Moazzin reconstructs how during this period foreign banks facilitated China's financial integration into the first global economy and provided the financial infrastructure required for modern economic globalization in China. Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China shows the key role international finance and foreign banks and capital markets played at important turning points in modern Chinese history"-- Provided by publisher In this wide-ranging study, Ghassan Moazzin sheds critical new light on the history of foreign banks in late 19th and early 20th century China, a time period that saw a substantial influx of foreign financial institutions into China and a rapid increase of both China's foreign trade and its interactions with international capital markets. Drawing on a broad range of German, English, Japanese and Chinese primary sources, including business records, government documents and personal papers, Moazzin reconstructs how during this period foreign banks facilitated China's financial integration into the first global economy and provided the financial infrastructure required for modern economic globalization in China. Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China shows the key role international finance and foreign banks and capital markets played at important turning points in modern Chinese history. 803a51d2_C1 04.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page 05.0_pp_v_vi_Dedication 06.0_pp_vii_vii_Contents 07.0_pp_viii_ix_Figures 08.0_pp_x_x_Tables 09.0_pp_xi_xiv_Acknowledgements 10.0_pp_xv_xv_Notes_and_Conventions 11.0_pp_xvi_xviii_Abbreviations 12.0_pp_xix_xx_Map 13.0_pp_1_23_Introduction 14.0_pp_24_55_A_German_Bank_in_China 15.0_pp_56_108_Entering_the_Chinese_Banking_Sector 16.0_pp_109_149_Chinese_Bonds_for_European_Investors 17.0_pp_150_187_Railway_Dreams 18.0_pp_188_228_Global_Markets_International_Finance_and_the_1911_Revolution_in_China 19.0_pp_229_264_Disentanglement_and_Liquidation 20.0_pp_265_276_Conclusion 21.1_pp_277_284_Deutsch-Asiatische_Bank_Loans_to_the_Chinese_Central_and_Provincial_Governments_18901916 21.2_pp_285_287_Foreign_Bank_BranchesAgencies_and_Agents_in_Major_Chinese_Ports_with_Number_of_Employees_1908 22.0_pp_288_321_Bibliography 23.0_pp_322_334_Index