Trading Crowd - An Ethnography of the Shanghai Stock Market

Zusammenfassung In 1992! an explosion of 'stock fever' hit Shanghai. Ellen Hertz's anthropological 1998 study sets the stock market and its players in the context of Shanghai society! and probes the dominant role played by the state! which has yielded a stock market very different from those of the West. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: ways and means; Part I: 1. First contact; 2. The Shanghai stock market and the tributary state; 3. Stock fever; 4. City people, stock people; Part II: 5. The big players; 6. The dispersed players; 7. 'Guojia': the rise and fall of a super-player; 8. Conclusion: the trading crowd; Afterwords; Glossary of Chinese terms; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Ellen Hertz, Ellen (Universite De Lausanne Hertz
• Assisted by: Meyer Fortes (Editor), Edmund Leach (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.1998
• EAN: 9780521564977
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56497-7
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Social &
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration