Association Of Banks (1927-1937)

The Shanghai Bankers' Association (S.B.A) was the banking same line organization hold by the Shanghai Chinese bankers. The basic purpose of the assassination was to safeguard the banking interest and to push forward the development of the banking .The year from 1927-1937 was the second ten-year of the history of the S.B.A. During the ten years, the members of the S.B.A increased from 24 to 45,and the S.B.A was getting perfect in inner organization and its ability of coordinating outside. All this made the S.B.A know its value and social status clearly than before, and its influence increased. During its development, the S.B.A was getting closer attention by the society, and became one of the most important nongovernmental organizations of Shanghai.Before its reconstruction in 1931,thoush the S.B.A had been doing its duty to serve the banking, such as improving the banking business, requiring to amend the law or policy, which will not benefit to the banking, its main work is to concert with the outside. The change of the social background made it is impossible for the S.B.A to put its heart into promoting the banking development. It is the reason that there is nothing extraordinary to come true in the banking public affairs. After reconstruction, the S.B.A was under the management of the government by the law, but its characteristic of independent had not vanished. With its stable inner management, the S.B.A could keep on doing its duty and doing well than before. The S.B.A got a closer relationship with the Nanking National Government than other bankers associations through the national bonds and loans from 1927.Although the S.B.A had ever declared it opinions toward the Nanking National Government or some related forces in the turbulent situation, it is not interested in the political functions .The S.B.A played a double function in protecting the benefit of the banking and in assisting the government in the finance and economic policy . And in a special time such as at the time after the 1.28 accident of Shanghai and at the time of the economic crisis in 1935,the S.B.A took the duty of stabilizing the economic order and giving relief to the industry and the commercial in assisting the government, which the other organizations could not compared with .It also revealed that the financial association was a potential social force to steady the social economic order. In a word, standardizing the development of fiancé and maintain its steady was the common need of the S.B.A and the National government. They coordinating with each other and get a virtuous reciprocal effect.During this period, The banking public affairs such as the Bankers Clearing house, Accepting House etc came into being one by one, which the S.B.A had been struggling for ten years to achieve .The S.B.A also played an important role in defending the benefit of the banking and in improving the banking business. These achievements were highly valued in the finance history of Modern China. It improved the developing environment of the Chinese banking of Shanghai and further the modernization of Chinese fiancé. In spite of being the regional banking self-management organization, the S.B.A became the leading center of the banking in the country.The S.B.A represented the benefit and the will of its members. Its history wasalso the same thing as the Shanghai bankers' struggling history for changing the backward finance situation of Modern China. The thesis was separated two parts by the year of 1931,and each part will take up the following several questions one by one: the management and the function of the S.B.A, the acts of the S.B.A in safeguarding the benefit of banking and in attending the policy consult of the government. From the case study of the S.B.A, the thesis will investigate the position and the effect of the industrial and the commercial association in the modern society, and will provide a virtuous example to reveal mutual relationship between the government and the nongovernmental organization.