Comprador Role In The Anglo-American Tobacco Company

Comprador is a new group of modern China, and in the transformation of modern Chinese society, they are one of the most dynamic and the most active groups on their problems have been studied economic history is an important research topic. At present, the cause of comprador generated, the nature and the role of research, scholars were from the macro-depth discussion and analysis, and achieved fruitful results, but in a typical case study on foreign and comprador rare.In this paper, the early20th century, a typical representative of foreign companies in China-the Anglo-American Tobacco Company as the carrier, the unity of the market in perspective, examining the role of comprador in American Tobacco.Through archival documents, newspapers, summarized the history of the local data collation, from tobacco cultivation and acquisitions, cigarette sales, government and enterprise analysis shows the relationship between the three levels comprador role in the Anglo-American Tobacco.The main contents of this paper is divided into the following sections:The first part outlines the Anglo-American Tobacco Company in the establishment and development of China’s monopoly organization, clear in its development process comprador played an important role;The second part discusses the contents of the Anglo-American Tobacco Company comprador from three aspects related to the Anglo-American Tobacco Company comprador regime, development types and comprador comprador regime;The third section discusses the specific role of comprador in tobacco growing and acquisitions, cigarette sales, government-enterprise relations;The fourth part, in the perspective of the unity of the market, from the comprador role and evaluation of both British and American Tobacco Company Comments comprador.By comprador role in the Anglo-American Tobacco Company in the study, the following understanding:First, comprador played an important role in the Anglo-American Tobacco Company development process, especially in cigarette sales in bear most of the sales.But cigarette sales success of the company, I believe that more of its capital, taxation, organization size and other factors, the lack of these factors, the Chinese comprador established sales network could not get such good results.Therefore, the formation of the Anglo-American tobacco monopoly status, more rely on his own strengths, and China has a special semi-feudal social and political environment, in which the comprador did not play a leading role.However, through the intermediary of the comprador, Anglo-American Tobacco Company has the advantage of fully play its formation monopoly played a role in promoting;Second, the Anglo-American Tobacco Company is one of the typical foreign-funded enterprises in China in the early20th century, his long monopoly of China’s tobacco market in China won a staggering profits, thus hindering the development of China’s national cigarette industry to grow, leading to a Chinese fortune the outflow, thus also its comprador service subject to many criticism.This article does not ignore the negative aspects, based on the analysis of the presence of British and American Tobacco comprador positive side, giving them to make a comprehensive and objective evaluation.Through this study, the hopes of the comprador and American Tobacco companies have a better understanding, and hope to study the problem of comprador helpful.