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Zhang Jian (businessman)

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Zhang proclaimed that "the victory of Japan and the defeat of Russia are the victory of constitutionalism and the defeat of monarchism". In 1909, he was elected the chairman of Jiangsu provincial assembly. He refused the membership of the Friends of the Constitution, and acted as a buffer against the
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province in 1853. He initially served as a staff member under the general Wu Changqing. After Wu's death, he returned to his hometown where he studied agriculture while preparing for further examinations. In 1894, he achieved the highest score in the Palace Examination, earning the prestigious title
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Zhang was obliged to return to his hometown for mourning his father in the same year. After the First Sino-Japanese War, he ventured into investing in and establishing modern enterprises. He later founded Dah Sun Cotton Mill in Nantong, financed by both the imperial court and local merchants.
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Additionally, he diversified into land reclamation, river conservancy, and modern education, especially in the northern Jiangsu. It is generally accepted that Zhang is a successful entrepreneur, however, some financial improprieties led Dah Sun to an insolvent liquidation in the 1920s.
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Zhang was among the pioneers of the Chinese modernization. Aside from companies and factories, he also founded the first normal school in modern China, Tongzhou Normal College in 1902 and established
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in Nanjing, but did not take the office actually. In 1913, Zhang became the Minister of Industry and Commerce and Minister of Agriculture and Forestry in
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active constitutionalists. But in the end of 1911, his thought swung in the republican's favour. Then he drafted the original
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Se'an (啬庵), was a Chinese entrepreneur, politician and educator. He is known as a "new gentry" and official-entrepreneur.
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cites Zhang as an example of a patriotic entrepreneur whose example should be followed.
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Minister of Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce of the Qing Dynasty
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In his statements that private companies must serve the state,
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Mao and markets the communist roots of Chinese enterprise
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Chinese entrepreneur, politician and educator (1853–1926)
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Claypool, Lisa. Zhang Jian and China's First Museum.
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Zhang Jian (politician)
Chinese name
family name
Zhang

Xiong Xiling
Zhou Ziqi
Xuantong Emperor
Yuan Shikai
Haimen
Jiangsu
Nantong
Qing Empire
Republic of China
Progressive Party
zhuangyuan
Imperial examination
Traditional Chinese
張謇
Simplified Chinese
张謇
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wade–Giles
Chinese
courtesy name
art name
Haimen
Jiangsu
zhuangyuan

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