A History of Modern Shanghai Banking
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A HISTORY OF MODERN SHANGHAI BANKING: The Rise and Decline of China’s Finance Capitalism. By Zhaojin Ji. Armonk (New York), London: M.E. Sharpe. 2003. xxxviii, 325 pp. (Photos, tables, illustrations.) US$69.95, cloth, ISBN 0-7656-1002-7; US$25.95, paper, ISBN 0-7656-1003-5. In this ambitious book, Zhaojin Ji attempts to provide a comprehensive review of the history of banking and finance in Shanghai over the last century and a half or so. Beginning with a chapter on the origins of “native” banking, Ji moves on to consider the arrival of foreign banks in Shanghai in the late nineteenth century, the rise of Chinese-owned banks in the early part of the… |