Organisational Improvisation, Architectural ‘Piggybacking’ and Masonic Networking in the International Settlement, Shanghai: Building an Anglican Cathedral, 1864-1869

Ying Yong Ding, Sam Mckinstry and Peiran Su ()
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Peiran Su: Audencia Recherche - Audencia Business School, Audencia Business School

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Abstract: Abstract This study provides a business history of the construction project to build a large Anglican church in colonial Shanghai in the 1860s. Employing three theoretical lenses, it focusses on the project's management, setting it in its social, political, economic and architectural contexts. As well as analysing the project's progress in detail, the paper discloses circumstances that were being faced more generally by resident British and international traders in Shanghai at this unsettled time. It also identifies forces which would in due course influence the long process of change leading to the eventual transformation both of Shanghai and of China itself, enhancing our understanding of the region's economic history.

Keywords: Chinese Treaty Ports; international merchants; extraterritoriality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-02
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Published in Enterprise and Society, inPress, 26 (1), pp.1-23. ⟨10.1017/eso.2024.5⟩

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DOI: 10.1017/eso.2024.5

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