1994 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Transfer of Technology and Growth in the Chinese Cotton Textile Industry
| Project/Area Number |
05630040
|
|---|
| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
|
| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
|---|
| Research Field |
Economic history
|
|---|
| Research Institution | Hokkaido University |
|---|
Principal Investigator |
NAKAI Hideki Hokkaido University Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (70068758)
|
|---|
| Project Period (FY) |
1993 – 1994
|
| Keywords | Cotton Spinnig Industry / Transfer of Technology / Chinese-owned Company / Management of Factory / Entrepreneur |
|---|
| Research Abstract |
In the first two decades of the 20th century, the Da Sheng Cotton Spinning Factory at Nantong became the most successful Chinese-owned textile mill.Its founder was the famous scholar-official Zhang Jian (1853-1926).If his entrepreneurial activities was typified as "Gentry-Merchant"who intermediated between the private businessmen and oficials in the local gevernment and took the lead of them to the industrial development, the other types of entrepreneurs were "Merchant", "Compradore", "Bureaucratic" and "Professional Manager" in the Modern Chinese Business history.As to the channels of Technical Transfer, there were three types of informations, that is modern machine itself via trade, direct guidance of foreign engineers who were dispatched to the lessdeveloped Chinese economy and experiences of the same textile mills which already started to operate at Shanghai.Searching into the "Rules and Regulations of Factory", we could acknowledge the idea of Business Nationalism, Leadership of Gentry-Director, the germinal formation of business hierarchy, and putting "Ying liang" side by side with "Ying Yuang".
|
