A Study On Overseas Chinese Investment Into China In Late Qing Period

The investments of overseas Chinese into China are one of the important topics of the Overseas Chinese history, and the overseas Chinese started their investments in a great scale from the Late Qing onwards. But there is still not publications specialized on the Late Qing period. This study tries to give a general situation of the overseas Chinese investments in the Late Qing, by tracing their motives of investment, the domestic conditions and Qing government's policies towards Overseas Chinese, the process and trades of their investments and the significations for the China's modern economy. This study not only summarizes of the invested trades in general, but also focuses the concrete cases in order to offer the different pictures of overseas Chinese invested enterprises. From the Late Qing onwards the overseas Chinese capital grew fast and getting interest in China's market. Meanwhile, the Qing government also realized the importance of the Overseas Chinese economic strength, and tried their best to draw the Overseas Chinese capital into domestic economic construction. Several famous rich merchants, like Chang Pi-shih, Hu Kuo-lien. Chang Pi-shih, invested huge sum capitals in China, and played an important part in the modernization progress of China. This test includes the research method of comprehensive concluding and comparing analytic, a great deal of source materials, English and Japanese information. Moreover, this text stresses the overseas Chinese advance managing method in their enterprises and its significance to China's domestic industry, and the lessons of the overseas Chinese invested enterprises from its success and failure. Such lessons will be available to the government nowadays.