Banking in China (1890s–1940s): Business in the French Concessions (Banking, Money and International Finance)

From the 1890s to the 1940s, French State and entrepreneurial companies were enticed to promote French interests, beyond mere colonial targets, for the sake of economic patriotism. Chinese concessions, not including Hong Kong, were thus inserted into geo-economic moves, and French stakeholders asserted their philosophy of competition, and displayed their means of influence and investment. In this book, the author assesses the challenges which confronted French actors in the face of powerful British imperial action overseas, all the more so because German Belgian, Japanese, and then also North-American competitors joined the fray. The book targets three concessions: Canton/Guangzhou, Tientsin/Tianjin, and Hankeou/Wuhan because of their significance in the emergence of a modern economy in the country. The three main sections of the book explore the position of French stakeholders, mainly businessmen, merchant houses, bankers, and a few industrialists, in these three port-cities and China overall. The chapters gauge their capital of influence and networking, commercial tools, and banking skills in the face of competition, the hardships of crossing the changes in economic productive systems or clusters in the various port-cities and their areas, rich with commercial offshoots. Also, several chapters underscore the uncertainties caused by geopolitical and military events in China. For each of the three concessions, commercial and banking systems, assessments of the successes and limits of the French bankers and merchants are investigated, with the aim of evaluating the reality of French entrepreneurialism and power in the regions prospected by the offshoots of French capitalism. The book will be an invaluable resource for academics interested in the history of banking and finance, business, entrepreneurship, colonialism and "economic patriotism" in Chinese history, in geo-economics and in connected history.

Bonin, Hubert

Reference

Routledge

Asian Imperial Banking History (Banking, Money and International Finance)

Business & Money

Economics

French Banking and Entrepreneurialism in China and Hong Kong (Banking, Money and International Finance)

From the 1890s to the 1940s, French State and entrepreneurial companies were enticed to promote French interests, beyond mere colonial targets, for the sake of economic patriotism. Chinese concessions, not including Hong Kong, were thus inserted into geo-economic moves, and French stakeholders asserted their philosophy of competition, and displayed their means of influence and investment. In this book, the author assesses the challenges which confronted French actors in the face of powerful British imperial action overseas, all the more so because German Belgian, Japanese, and then also North-American competitors joined the fray. 
The book targets three concessions: Canton/Guangzhou, Tientsin/Tianjin, and Hankeou/Wuhan because of their significance in the emergence of a modern economy in the country. The three main sections of the book explore the position of French stakeholders, mainly businessmen, merchant houses, bankers, and a few industrialists, in these three port-cities and China overall. The chapters gauge their capital of influence and networking, commercial tools, and banking skills in the face of competition, the hardships of crossing the changes in economic productive systems or clusters in the various port-cities and their areas, rich with commercial offshoots. Also, several chapters underscore the uncertainties caused by geopolitical and military events in China. For each of the three concessions, commercial and banking systems, assessments of the successes and limits of the French bankers and merchants are investigated, with the aim of evaluating the reality of French entrepreneurialism and power in the regions prospected by the offshoots of French capitalism. 
The book will be an invaluable resource for academics interested in the history of banking and finance, business, entrepreneurship, colonialism and "economic patriotism" in Chinese history, in geo-economics and in connected history.

When European powers annexed parts of Asia, banking systems were an important part of that process. The essays in this edited collection are based on original research using primary sources in English, French, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. The book as a whole provides new insights into banking in imperial Asia and a platform for further research.

La Crise bancaire française et mondiale

QUE SAIS JE

Les mondialisations: Des années 1880 au milieu des années 1930

History

Sanna, Francesca

Venayre, Sylvain

MARKOVITS, Claude

Donzé, Pierre-Yves

Patin, Nicolas

Rapoport, Michel

Paulès, Xavier

Nérard, François-Xavier

MICHEL, Nicolas

Beaurepaire, Pierre yves

Saint-raymond, Léa

Ducange, Jean-Numa

Gilles, Philippe

Perez Tisserant, Emmanuelle

Vatin, François

Démier, Francis

Fabre, Clément

Arzel, Lancelot

Capdepuy, Vincent

Legrandjacques, Sara

Marin, Séverine Antigone

Quennouëlle Corre, Laure

Rey, Matthieu

Archambault, Fabien

Archambault-küch, Marie-laure

Artiaga, Loïc

Attal, Frédéric

Bechini, Thibault

Bellégo, Marine

Biets, Jordan

Blaszkiewicz-maison, Adeline

Bollenot, Vincent

Bolz, Lisa

Campagne, Armel

Carlier, Hugo

Carrez, Maurice

Caru, Vanessa

Chaillou-atrous, Virginie

Challine, Éléonore

Chatalic, Molly

Corthier-hardoin, Gwendoline

Cosson, Olivier

Couderc, Agathe

Curel, Agnès

Demougin, Laure

Drémeaux, François

Dubois, Antonin

Dupuy, Michel

Durand, Antonin

Elmer, Margot

Flonneau, Mathieu

Froment, Delphine

Gallien, Raphaël

Génard, Elsa

Gilfedder-doyle, Deirdre

Godfroy-tayart De Borms, Marion

Guyon, Anthony

Hodeir, Catherine

Houte, Arnaud-Dominique

Jesné, Fabrice

Kalimassa, Faraga

Kreis, Emmanuel

Labrune-badiane, Céline

Lacam, Clélia

Langlois, Mickael

Laurentin, Emmanuel

Lozerand, Emmanuel

Marcobelli, Elisa

Marnot, Bruno

Marquet, Julie

Matard-Bonucci, Marie-Anne

Millot, Théo

Némirovski, Isabelle

Nicolle, Sylvain

Pétriat, Philippe

Prudhomme, Claude

Puche, Alexandre

Rainhorn, Judith

Roy, Alexandre

Sallée, Frédéric

Sanchez, Romy

Sanchez, Samuel F.

Saraceno, Marco

Solans, Abel

Struillou, Yves

Thomas, Olivier

Tsiptsios, Lukas

Vapné, Lisa

Vernus, Pierre

Ville, Sylvain

Walin, Marie

Zytnicki, Colette

Reynaud-Paligot, Carole

Europe

ATLANDE

The recent financial and banking crisis did reveal the discrepancy between internal management rules and the demands for stability within the divisions of corporate and investment banking by universal banks or within pure investment banks. Their mastership of risks did not balance the variety and breadth of operations, at the expense of transparent and well-structured balance sheets.  The book intends fuel comparisons between historical national case studies and present evolution of investment banking. It will foster arguments about the management of risks, about the portfolio of skills of investment bankers, about the role of senior bankers. Two chapters of issues and of present assessments help giving sense to history through the mobilisation of concepts crossing decades till the recent years, so as to favour deeper thinking about the very nature and good practices of investment banking.

Investment Banking History: National and Comparative Issues (19th-21st centuries) (Euroclio)

Brambilla, Carlo

Biography & History

P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales

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