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Full referenceYeh, Wen-hsin, “Corporate Space, Communal Time: Everyday Life in Shanghai's Bank of China” (1995)
TypeJournal article
Author(s)Yeh, Wen-hsin
Title“Corporate Space, Communal Time: Everyday Life in Shanghai's Bank of China”
Year1995
JournalAmerican Historical Review
Volume100
Number1
Start page97
End page122
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Keywordssocial; economy
AbstractAt first glance, the Bank of China (1911-49) in Shanghai seems to have been a typical case of Western corporate paternalism imported quite naturally into China's most Westernized city. Examination of the everyday life and workplace relationships of the middle-class professional employees of this Western-style institution, however, makes clear that it differed in important ways from its Western model. Senior executives, heavily influenced by neo-Confucian notions of patriarchy, used moral injunctions to guide the conduct of junior employees, imposing discipline through living arrangements in communal compounds and a rigid scheduling of collective activity. This corporate communalism prefigured key features of the socialist work-unit system adopted by state-run industries after the revolution. The political significance of this continuity between prerevolutionary and postrevolutionary China is emphasized.
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