近代中国綿業の地帯構造と経営類型 : その発展の論理をめぐって
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This paper offers some new insights into the development of the Chinese cotton industry in the 1920s and the 1930s. According to the text books on Chinese modern economic history published in China, it is said that Chinese-owned cotton mills always faced difficulties during this period because of problems with their own management and competition from Japanese-owned cotton mills established in China. This point of view is not quite true, or at the least, there exist important excepsions. Actually it has been impossible for many economic historians to examine primary sources of the management of Chinese cotton mills. And this is one of the main reasons why the development of the Chinese cotton industry has been misunderstood in the past. Now the condition has began to change. We can use a series of documents on the management of several cotton mills including Shenxin, Yong'an, Huaxin, Yuxua, and so on. By means of the analysis of the management, this paper tries to make clear the regional differences of the development of the Chinese cotton industry and compare some kinds of the types of the management. The results are as follows. (1) We can find out two regions where the Chinese cotton industry was well developed. On one hand, using lots of foreign raw cotton and selling cotton goods to the nationwide market, Chinese-owned cotton mills in Shanghai enjoyed good business results. On the other hand, Chinese-owned cotton mills located in the inland also earned large profits because they could easily buy cheap raw cotton and sell their products in rural markets. (2) Some of Chinese-owned cotton mills performed favorble management, while others did not. We can point out that the actions of management, the power of management against stockholders, and the power to raise capital highly differentiated the business results of each of the cotton mills.
- 政治経済学・経済史学会の論文
- 1986-10-20