The establishment of Shanghai commercial port in Modern Times and the rapid development of raw silk export in Huzhou have pushed forward the development of rural economy in Huzhou Area, which has made the specialized production level of agricultural products further improved and the modernized conversion of village handicraft industry realized, and which has also advanced the economic development and the commercial prosperity in the city and the towns.
The Shanghai port-opening in the year 1842 became the turning point of the city's development, and also a starting point for the reconstruction of the city system in the Yangtze River Delta with its center Shanghai ever since it entered modern times.
After the opening of Shanghai port,along with the establishment of its position as a foreign trade centre,Shanghai has had changes in the trade structures of its economy,and in the classes and the professional structures of citizen groups. Xiaodaojhui Uprising in Shanghai was an arnTed uprising of resistance against the Qing dynasty, which evolved from secret societies and happened at the beginning of modern Shanghai' Members taking part in this uprising were mainly factions from Shanghai and other places,m...
he basic aim of this study is to emphasize modern Shanghai as an important factor leading to change of economic structure in countryside of southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang include agriculture and handicraft industry, etc.
This article chooses the formation of the compradorize of the raw silk industry in South Jiangsu as a case study to discuss the forming paths to the compradorize. It points out that foreign banks manipulate Chinese business capital by taking advantage of Chinese traditional business paths, purchase silk directly through the hands of comprador and controll the raw silk market of South Jiangsu by taking advantage of the "Suzhou System". As a result, in the process of the raw silk export, foreign banks make us...