| 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 |