The Bona Fide Contracts: An Engineering Company in Wartime Shanghai, 1937–1945

Carles Brasó Broggi ()
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Carles Brasó Broggi: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Chapter 10 in Technology and Globalisation, 2018, pp 257-282 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract When Japan invaded China in July 1937, Chinese industrial companies sought collaboration agreements with foreign engineers to protect their assets against war and occupation. At the same time, the core business of foreign engineers, the machinery trade, came to a standstill. This chapter aims to analyze the strategy of business diversification of a transnational engineering company called China Engineers Limited during the period of China’s war with Japan. The agreements of all types that this company reached with Chinese firms demonstrate that there was a powerful logic of globalization in the alliance between Chinese industrial firms and transnational engineering companies.

Keywords: Bona Fide; China Engineering; Machinery Trade; Dafeng; Gomersall (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75450-5_10

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