Patriots' game : : Yongli Chemical Industries 1917-1953 / / by Kwan Man Bun.

• Superior document: China Studies, Volume 35
• VerfasserIn: Bun, Kwan Man,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 35.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 pages) :; illustrations, tables.

“When thinking about modern China’s chemical industry, forget not Fan Xudong,” so declared Mao Zedong publicly after 1949. Although Mao might have united front politics in mind when invoking Fan as a paragon of the national bourgeoisie, why would the chairman praise a champion of private enterprise?...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction
• Founding
• Salt In, Salt Out
• Tolerable for All?
• The Politics and Economics of Ammonium Sulphate
• Creative Financing and Reorganization
• At War
• Dilemmas
• Crisis and Nationalization
• Postscript
• Appendix I Yongli Chemical Industries: Capitalization, 1917–1937
• Appendix II Yongli Chemical Industries: Bank Loans, Credit Line, Net Profit, and Dividend 1917–1937
• Appendix III Loans and Credit Line Diverted from Jiuda to Yongli
• Appendix IVA English Soda Ash Exports and Sales to Asia and Australia, 1901–1941
• Appendix IVB China Customs Returns: Soda Ash Imported, 1902–1937
• Appendix V Yongli and ICI Sales in China, 1924–1937
• Appendix VI Yongli Soda Ash Sales by Region, 1928–1937
• Appendix VII Summary of Yongli Wartime Losses
• Appendix VIIIA Yongli (Tanggu) Soda Ash Production, 1946–1953
• Appendix VIIIB Yongli (Nanjing) Ammonium Sulphate Production, 1937–1953
• Appendix IX Yongli Chemical Industries Financial Summary, 1946–1953
• Glossary
• Selected Bibliography
• Index.