Les habits neufs des maisons de prêt sur gage chinoises

Thierry Pairault

Mondes en développement, 2002, vol. 118, issue 2, 21-37

Abstract: When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, it clearly identifies pawnbroking as mere usury. This has been the official stance till the late 1980s when private, semi-private and even state-owned pawnshop like businesses began to spring up everywhere in China. It took about ten years of discussion, of struggle, of bargaining to achieve regulations which might be implemented by the various actors. Thus the emergence of pawnshop in some way shows the rising power of the civil society in China nowadays.

Date: 2002
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