Yudahua Business Group in China's Early Industrialization

This study traces the history of China’s Yudahua Business Group from the 1890s to the 1950s. The author examines the textile company's leadership model and its strategies to locate new mills in industrially underdeveloped interior regions.

Juanjuan Peng is associate professor of history at Georgia Southern University.

Chapter 1: From the Hubei Textile Bureau to the Chuxing Company: The Self-Strengthening Legacy of China's Early Industrialization Chapter 2: Managers and Technocrats: The Top Management Team Chapter 3: Daxing and Yuhua: One Business in Two Localities, 1921-1931 Chapter 4: Yudahua: The Rise of a Business Group during the 1930s and 1940s Chapter 5: From the Japanese Occupation to the Communist Liberation: The Transformation in the Late 1940s and Early 1950s Chapter 6: Revisit the Wartime Legacy: Workers' Welfare before and after 1949