Description: Acknowledgments Introduction Origins and Development of the Shanghai Capitalists The Organization and Political Power of the Shanghai Capitalists The Shanghai Capitalists on the Eve of Kuomintang Rule The Arrival of the Kuomintang in Shanghai, 1927-1928 Chiang Kai-Shek's Alliance with the Shanghai Capitalists, March-April 1927 Chiang's Resignation and the Autumn 1927 Respite for the Shanghai Capitalists Renewed Pressure on the Shanghai Capitalists, January-June 1928 T. V. Soongs Policy of Cooperation with the Shanghai Capitalists Soong's Political Mobilization of the Shanghai Capitalists The Shanghai Capitalists' Political Action Suppression of the Shanghai Capitalists Financial aspects of T. V. Soong's Policy Soong's Deficit Finance Policies, 1928-1932 The Shanghai Financiers and Soong's Deficit Finance Policy The Structure of Shanghai Banking and Soong's Policy of Cooperation Soong's Relations with the Commercial and Industrial Capitalists T. V. Soong and the Shanghai Bankers, 1931-1933 The Canton Separatist Movement and the Shanghai Bond Market The Collapse of the Shanghai Bond Market, 1931-1932 The Sun Fo Government and the Shanghai Bankers Soong's Return to office and the Bond Reorganization Soong's Policy Dispute with Chiang Kai-Shek The Shanghai Bankers' Fight Against Military Spending Soong's Lost Fight Against Deficit Spending Soong's Anti-Japanese Economic Program Soong's Resignation The Impact of Soong's Resignation The Silver Crisis and Economic Depression in China The Rise in Silver Prices and the Depression The Shanghai Financiers and the Depression The Shanghai Industrialists and the Depression The Shanghai Commercial Community and the Depression The Depression and the Unity of the Shanghai Financial, Industrial, and Commercial Capitalists H. H. Kung and the Shanghai Financiers Kung's Policy of Deficit Spending and the Shanghai Financiers The Banking Coup of March 1935 The Little Coup of June 1935 and Further Government Takeovers of Commercial Banks The Fa-Pi Reform and the Organization of the Four-Bank Group The Shanghai Bankers and the Government, 1936-1937: the Magnitude of Government Control The Impact of the Government Takeover of China's Banking Industry The Shanghai Bankers as Individuals After 1935 Nanking and the Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Capitalists, 1934-1937 Nanking's Economic Relief Program and the Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Capitalists T. V. Soong and Nanking's Increased Involvement in Commerce and Industry The Soong Group--The China Development Finance Corporation The Soong Group--The Bank of China and Related Activities The Kung Group The Chiang Kai-Shek Group--The National Resources Commission The Ministry of Industry Group The Impact of Government Involvement in Industry and Commerce on the Shanghai Capitalists Nankings Involvement in Industry and Commerce as Bureaucratic Capitalism Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Glossary Index

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