Group Analyses Of The Foreign Bank Compradors In The Late Qing Dynasty And The Republic Of China

Modern Chinese economic development underwent a hard course. Chinese capitalism and bourgeoisie came into being under the commercial invasion of the Western countries, and struggled in the crack of foreign aggression forces, native feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism. At that time, foreign bank was the imperialism bridgehead in the aggression of China.The facts of their plunder to Chinese people went far beyond the scope of finance. Foreign bank compradors were the very important component part of foreign bank, and also a precial group of the straum of mordern Chinese compradors. This thesis made a profound analysis of foreign bank compradors about their origin, business run, income and investment, decline. These compradors helped foreign banks to rub Chinese wealth, meanwhile, completed their capital accumulation. Part of them has transformed into national bourgeoisie though this course was complete different from national bourgeoisies'. The compradors development course reflected an aspect of Chinese bourgeoisie birth and growing, and also being an important, inseparable part of China modern economic history. At last, the thesis makes an overall appraisal of compradors.