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Vol. 92
ISSN：
1029-4740
Date：
2016-6
Softcover：250 TWD
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Pages：
153
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Abstract：
This issue contains three articles: “Art as Commodity: The Commercial Aspects of Suzhou Single-Sheet Prints in the Early and Middle Qing Dynasty,” by Wang Cheng-hua; “China Trade and Profit Distribution: The Salaries and Benefits of the Canton Factory Staff of the English East India Company, 1786-1834,” by Yu Po-ching; “War-Time State-Owned Enterprises: The Guangxi Textile Machinery Factory, 1938-1945,” by Liu Su-fen; Book Reviews: “George L. Israel,
Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China: The Political Career of Wang Yangming
,” by Yang Cheng-hsien; “Andrea S. Goldman,
Opera and the City: The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900
,” by Zhang Yi-nan.
Contents
Articles
Art as Commodity: The Commercial Aspects of Suzhou Single-Sheet Prints in the Early and Middle Qing Dynasty
[Abstract]
Wang Cheng-hua
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1
This study investigates the production and consumption of extant Suzhou single-sheet prints in order to gain a comprehensive picture of the art industry that made them a popular product. The issues dealt with include when and where these prints were produced, the business and marketing strategies of the print workshops that produced them, and the consumption of such low-end artistic works in early-modern China. These prints were mostly produced from the 1660s to the early nineteenth century in at least two concentrated areas inside the city of Suzhou. These prints exist to this day in great quantities (300 by a conservative estimate). Despite their popularity, they are scarcely remarked in textual records. Nonetheless, this study is able to explore the commercial aspect of these prints, treating them as highly commoditized and in-stock artworks sold by the print workshops that produced them and the specialized shops that carried pictures. These prints, likely one of the famous local products of Suzhou, circulated widely in China but stood on the bottom rung of the ladder of artworks. Moreover, these prints represent an artistic interaction between China and Europe as well as China and Japan in the early modern period, being exported and also displaying European stylistic features.
Keyword
：Suzhou prints, art as commodity, art industry of Suzhou, Sino-European artistic interactions
China Trade and Profit Distribution: The Salaries and Benefits of the Canton Factory Staff of the English East India Company, 1786-1834
[Abstract]
Yu Po-ching
PDF
55
From the 1780s, China gradually became an important market for the English East India Company (hereafter, the “Company”) in its Asian trading networks, and the Company received great profits from the China (Canton) trade. The directors were expected to offer their staff reasonable salaries and benefits, not least to suppress the development of private merchants. This article analyzes the changes in staff rewards between 1786 and 1834, as well as exploring how the directors discussed and dealt with such important issues as the numbers of staff, commissions, leave payments, “private trade,” and the like. Also, this article compares the salary scales of factory staff to different social classes of British society and other employees within the Company, thus highlighting how the China trade helped people who came to China accumulate wealth. Finally, this article also examines the problems that the Company faced through the Canton staff’s pay policies. In fact, the conservatism of pay policies, their limitations, and the lack of innovation were revealed through inspections which show that the Company could not deal with efficiently with the social changes and overseas trading situations of the time. This illuminates how the Company finally lost its China monopoly finally as well.
Keyword
：English East India Company, Canton Factory, China trade, commercial history, profit distribution
War-Time State-Owned Enterprises: The Guangxi Textile Machinery Factory, 1938-1945
[Abstract]
Liu Su-fen
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101
This article takes the Guangxi Textile Machinery Factory (GTMF) as a case study to explore the growth of state-owned enterprises under the regulated economy of the National Government during the War of Resistance against Japan. Most of the intellectuals who supported a regulated economy joined the National Government in the 1930s and become technocrats. For example, Ding Wenjiang established the Textile and Dyeing Experimental Hall in Shanghai in 1934, which was moved to Guilin and jointly reconstructed as the GTMF by Weng Wenhao and the Guangxi provincial government. By analyzing archival data, GTMF provides a case study of the movement of industrial and mining equipment to the interior. There, it was managed by Lin Jiyong (Lin Chi-yung) and the Bureau of Adjustment of Industry and Mines (BAIM). The movement offered opportunities for BAIM to invest in state-owned enterprises during the war. GTMF was the only modern textile industry in Guangxi before 1949. Instead of the local government of Guangxi Province, central government agencies promulgated regulations, controlled personnel appointments, and significantly improved the benefits of employees of such state-owned enterprises for the war economy. This formed a basis of the economic policies in China and Taiwan after 1949.
Keyword
：regulated economy, state-owned enterprise, the Guangxi Textile Machinery Factory, technocrats
Book Reviews
George L. Israel,
Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China: The Political Career of Wang Yangming
Yang Cheng-hsien
PDF
139
Andrea S. Goldman,
Opera and the City: The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770-1900
Zhang Yi-nan
PDF
145
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