Du, Xuncheng, “Cong 1883 nian shanghai jinrong fengchao kan zhongguo zichan jieji di chansheng” (The birth of China's bourgeoisie viewed in relation to the Shanghai financial disturbance of 1883) (1987)

Title : “Cong 1883 nian shanghai jinrong fengchao kan zhongguo zichan jieji di chansheng” (The birth of China's bourgeoisie viewed in relation to the Shanghai financial disturbance of 1883)

Author(s) : Du, Xuncheng

Year : 1987

Type : Journal article

Subject : History

Keywords : political;elites

Journal : Lishi Yanjiu,

Volume : 6

Start page : 121

End page : 136

Language:Name : Chinese

Support : Print

Abstract : In the West, bourgeois class development was self-initiated, and accumulated capital sustained both industry and commerce. Because of China's semicolonial status, the "hair" of commercial capitalist development was rooted in the "skin" of foreign trade. The 1883 financial disturbance in Shanghai, caused primarily by crop failure and famine in the interior, underscored the weakness of China's attempts to accumulate investment capital for both commerce and industry.