TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bonin,Hubert
TI  - French banking and entrepreneurialism in China and Hong Kong from the 1850s to 1980s
T2  - Banking, Money and International Finance Ser
SN  - 9780429265075
AV  - HG3334 .B65 2019eb
U1  - 332.10951/0904 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Banks and banking, French
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - Hong Kong
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Hong Kong (China)
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Banks & Banking
N2  - Many books have addressed the economic and financial history of Hong Kong, and the imperialist conflicts in the key Chinese port-cities but very few books have explored French initiatives and performance in this area, beyond diplomacy, geopolitics or cultural issues. In this book, Hubert Bonin confronts arguments about "the great divergence", "the first globalisation", and forms of "economic patriotism". He gauges the competitive edge of French companies and banks, their struggle with British domination (HBSC, Chartered, shipping, trade houses/hongs) and their resistance against competitors from other countries (Japan, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, USA, or Russia). The book delves into studies of management abroad, therefore mixing broad geo-economic issues with precise business history and deep banking history. The connections between French interests in China and Hong Kong and the colony of Indochina are established too. A second part of the book is dedicated to the case study of Hong Kong, as the British colony acted as a hub for Asian and European interests at the heart of connections with mainland China and some neighbouring territories (Indochina, etc.). This is essential reading for academics interested in banking and business history, the history of entrepreneurship, as well as, those involved in the contemporary history of China and Hong Kong, in the assessment of world-wide geo-economic competition between European powers in Asia (Great-Britain, and France), and in the first stages of economic "modernity", along European models, in emerging modern China
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429265075
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -