Writing the history of industrial enterprises in modern China. Analysing the role of local and foreign models. KU Leuven
This project will focus on the emergence of China’s modern industrial enterprises. It will do so by studying the role of China’s governmental and business actors as recipients of knowledge in a number of case-studies during China’s modernization (1912-1993). The research will study the introduction of external knowledge into domestic contexts and explore the interaction between local and foreign elements. The main research question will be: ...