索引號 | Yeh, Wen-hsin, “Corporate Space, Communal Time: Everyday Life in Shanghai's Bank of China” (1995) |
類型 | Journal article |
作者 | Yeh, Wen-hsin |
題名 | “Corporate Space, Communal Time: Everyday Life in Shanghai's Bank of China” |
年份 | 1995 |
期刊 | American Historical Review |
卷數 | 100 |
编号 | 1 |
首頁 | 97 |
尾頁 | 122 |
語言 | English |
主題 | History |
關鍵字 | social; economy |
摘要 | At first glance, the Bank of China (1911-49) in Shanghai seems to have been a typical case of Western corporate paternalism imported quite naturally into China's most Westernized city. Examination of the everyday life and workplace relationships of the middle-class professional employees of this Western-style institution, however, makes clear that it differed in important ways from its Western model. Senior executives, heavily influenced by neo-Confucian notions of patriarchy, used moral injunctions to guide the conduct of junior employees, imposing discipline through living arrangements in communal compounds and a rigid scheduling of collective activity. This corporate communalism prefigured key features of the socialist work-unit system adopted by state-run industries after the revolution. The political significance of this continuity between prerevolutionary and postrevolutionary China is emphasized. |
文件類型 | Print |