From the 1890s to the 1940s, French State and entrepreneurial
companies were enticed to promote French interests, beyond mere
colonial targets, for the sake of economic patriotism. Chinese
concessions, not including Hong Kong, were thus inserted into
geo-economic moves, and French stakeholders asserted their
philosophy of competition, and displayed their means of influence
and investment. In this book, the author assesses the challenges
which confronted French actors in the face of powerful British
imperial action overseas, all the more so because German Belgian,
Japanese, and then also North-American competitors joined the fray.
The book targets three concessions: Canton/Guangzhou,
Tientsin/Tianjin, and Hankeou/Wuhan because of their significance
in the emergence of a modern economy in the country. The three main
sections of the book explore the position of French stakeholders,
mainly businessmen, merchant houses, bankers, and a few
industrialists, in these three port-cities and China overall. The
chapters gauge their capital of influence and networking,
commercial tools, and banking skills in the face of competition,
the hardships of crossing the changes in economic productive
systems or clusters in the various port-cities and their areas,
rich with commercial offshoots. Also, several chapters underscore
the uncertainties caused by geopolitical and military events in
China. For each of the three concessions, commercial and banking
systems, assessments of the successes and limits of the French
bankers and merchants are investigated, with the aim of evaluating
the reality of French entrepreneurialism and power in the regions
prospected by the offshoots of French capitalism. The book will be
an invaluable resource for academics interested in the history of
banking and finance, business, entrepreneurship, colonialism and
"economic patriotism" in Chinese history, in geo-economics and in
connected history.
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