Reed, Christopher A., “Sooty Sons of Vulcan: Shanghai's Printing Machine Manufacturers, 1895-1932” (1995)

Title : “Sooty Sons of Vulcan: Shanghai's Printing Machine Manufacturers, 1895-1932”

Author(s) : Reed, Christopher A.

Year : 1995

Type : Journal article

Subject : History

Keywords : culture;economy;industry

Journal : Republican China

Volume : 20

Number : 2

Start page : 9

End page : 54

Language:Name : English

Support : Print

Abstract : Presents much-overlooked evidence to illustrate how the printing machinery industry in Shanghai, more than any other machine-based industry in China, quickly acquired Western technological expertise and applied it to create a thriving business for a handful of "foremen-capitalists" through a harsh apprenticeship system.