: an ethnography of the Shanghai stock market Ellen Hertz creator Ellen Hertz text Stock exchanges -- China -- Shanghai. New York : Cambridge University Press , 1998 monographic eng

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xiv, 238 pages ; 24 cm. In this study the author sets the stock market and its players in the context of Shanghai society, and it probes the dominant role played by the state, which has yielded a stock market very different from those of the West. A trained anthropologist, she explains the way in which investors and officials construct a 'moral storyline' to make sense of this great structural innovation, identifying a struggle between three groups of actors - the big investors, the little investors, and the state - to control the market Introduction: ways and means -- First contact -- The Shanghai stock market and the tributary state -- Stock fever (gupiao re) -- City people, stock people -- The big players (dahu) -- The dispersed players (sanhu) -- 'Guojia': the rise and fall of a super-player -- Conclusion: the trading crowd. /Ellen Hertz Social Sciences 332.6425 HER 9780521564977 International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,New Delhi-110002 200109 20200214112823.0