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082 _a332.6425 HER
100 _aEllen Hertz
245 _aThe trading crowd
_b: an ethnography of the Shanghai stock market
_c/Ellen Hertz
260 _aNew York
_b : Cambridge University Press
_c, 1998.
300 _axiv, 238 pages
_c; 24 cm.
365 _b3503
490 _aCambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology, 108.
505 _aIntroduction: 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.
520 _a 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
650 _aSocial Sciences
655 _aStock exchanges -- China -- Shanghai.
700 _aEllen Hertz
942 _cBOOK