Wavering Ship: Chinese National Industry and Commerce from 1900 to 1949

Author: Yi Qian
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: In the turbulent early 20th century of the old China, the national industry and commerce of China struggled for survival in the stormy sea of chaos with treacherous reefs. Driven by the passionate ideal of saving the nation through industry, a generation of industrialists poured their hearts out, toiling under harsh conditions, giving rise to a group of successful industrial elites such as the "Wheat Flour King," the "Cotton Yarn King," the "Match King," the "Ship King," and the "Sodium Carbonate King." However, the feudal social system, the corrupt Nationalist government, and the long eight-year war of resistance turned their hard-won foundations in various fields of national industry and commerce, as well as their toil and sweat, into a bubble, destroying it all in the end.