The Handicraft And Trade Association Of Wuhan In Late Republic Of China (1940-1949)

The handicraft industry of modern Wuhan has a long history.It is of great value on meeting the need of people's normal life as well as the exporting trade. But in the modern histry it was very difficult to develop.Comparing to the handicraft economy area of the coastland and northern China, the handicraft industry of modem Wuhan is hard to become the modern handicraft industry under the restrict of the tradional factor.Inside the productive forces of the handicraft industry of modern Wuhan, first and foremost,we hold that although some industries showed alteration of handicraft tools, even some very few ones were under the technological mode of "millstone+steam-engine" , the most industries maintain the traditional technics lasting for a hundred years. It was still in the form of tradional handicraft workshop even the tools were improved. So it can't be regard that the handicraft industry of modern Wuhan was beginning to transform into the mordernized machine product. Second and more importantly, in the types of relations of handicraft production, many handicraft industries were producing as well as selling. It resulted in the combination of industry and commerce. But there was a few industries divided the industry and commerce, so it made a room for the the putting-out system. We can see that most industries holded all the parts of the working procedure, but very few of them also undertook the The division of labour at a high level. On the whole scale, we can say that the handicraft of modern Wuhan is between the "tradional handicraft industry" and the "modern handicraft industry". At the same time It is more nearer to the fore one. So if the modern handicraft industry of China was a middle economy, the handicraft industry of modern Wuhan can be called the "sub-middle economy".The sub-middle economy had influenced the industrial and commercial trade association of modern Wuhan. Such as (1) It was hard to divide the industrial trade association and the commercial trade association because the combination of...