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Full referenceEng, Robert Y., “Chinese Entrepreneurs, the Government, and the Foreign Sector: The Canton and Shanghai Silk-Reeling Enterprises, 1861-1932”. (1984)
TypeJournal article
Author(s)Eng, Robert Y.
Title“Chinese Entrepreneurs, the Government, and the Foreign Sector: The Canton and Shanghai Silk-Reeling Enterprises, 1861-1932”.
Year1984
JournalModern Asian Studies
Volume18
Number3
Start page353
End page370
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Keywordseconomy; industry;
AbstractNeo-Marxist historians view the Chinese ports opened in the aftermath of the Opium War of 1839-42 as beachheads of imperialism. Revisionist scholars contend that the ports acted as the centers of Western entrepreneurship, successfully imitated by the Chinese. Analysis of the emergence of the silk-reeling industry in Shanghai and Guangdong from 1861 through 1932 reveals that the revisionists overestimate the positive contributions of the Westerners and the neo-Marxists oversimplify the foreign role as exploitative. Rather, both the Chinese and Westerners benefitted. The Chinese controlled collecting and processing and the Westerners controlled the foreign trade and finance sectors.
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