Open Doors

Vilhelm Meyer and the Establishment of General Electric in China

By: Christopher Bo Bramsen

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Hardcover | 12 January 2001 | Edition Number 1

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336 Pages

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America's 'Open Door' policy towards pre-revolutionary China was essentially that China should be kept open to all countries on an equal and competitive basis rather than being carved up into exclusive zones of interest by the imperial powers. The Danish entrepreneur Vilhelm Meyer was a firm believer in this policy. Thus, it is not surprising that the doors of his own home in Shanghai were always open to a wide range of different people, not least to his Chinese friends. On one level, this volume is an intriguing account of the life and times of a Danish couple prominent in Shanghai's International settlement between 1902 and 1935, on another, it charts the introduction and growth of new Western technologies in China, and with them the establishment of the General Electric Company there. Early-20th-century China itself is the backdrop for these stories, recounting the hopes, fears, turmoil and grandeur of the age.

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'In Open Doors, Christopher Bo Bramsen has provided an engagingly written and lavishly illustrated account of Vilhelm Meyer's career and the lifestyle that he and his family experienced during the first three decades of the twentieth century.' - Business History Journal

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