{"product_id":"patriots-game-yongli-chemical-industries-1917-1953-9789004336377","title":"Patriots' Game: Yongli Chemical Industries, 1917-1953","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“When thinking about modern China’s chemical industry, forget not Fan Xudong,” so declared Mao Zedong publicly after 1949. Although Mao might have united front politics in mind when invoking Fan as a paragon of the national bourgeoisie, why would the chairman praise a champion of private enterprise?  How did Fan Xudong and his colleagues build Yongli from scratch into one of the largest industrial conglomerates in modern China amid predatory foreign competition and domestic strife?  What were his secrets of success? Drawing from company documents, government archives, and personal correspondences, this book traces Yongli’s birth, growth, nationalization, and how Fan and his colleagues pursued a third path of national development between for-profit private enterprise and state ownership.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations                             \t Acknowledgments                                     \t Introduction                                                                                                            Chapter 1: Founding                                                                                                      Chapter 2: Salt in, Salt out                                                                                Chapter 3: Tolerable for All?                                                                            Chapter 4: The Politics and Economics of Ammonium Sulfate                     Chapter 5: Creative Financing and Reorganization                      Chapter 6: At War                                                                              Chapter 7: Dilemmas                                Chapter 8: Crisis and Nationalization                                                             Postscript                                                                                           Appendices                                                                                    Glossary                                                                                          Selected Bibliography","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210697269591,"sku":"9789004336377","price":132.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/patriots-game-yongli-chemical-industries-1917-1953-9789004336377","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}