This book, first published in 1941, is a comprehensive study on the native banks that linked small Chinese traders and the larger Chinese and foreign banks. It is based on extensive research in Tientsin and Peking, and a large number of interviews with native bankers, and the result is an exhaustive study on the practice.

This timely book traces the development of banking and paper money in republican Tianjin in order to explore the creation of social trust in financial institutions. Framing the study around Bian Baimei, a conscientious branch manager of the Bank of China, Brett Sheehan analyzes the actions of bankers, officials, and local elites as they tried to overcome political and financial crises and instill trust in the banking system.After early failures in promoting trust, government authority as a regulator of the financial system gradually increased, peaking in 1935, when the state unified the money supply for the first time in several hundred years. Concurrently, when local elites proved unable to develop successful strategies to make people trust the system, their influence declined.
The need for trust in increasingly complex financial arrangements redefined state-society relations, simultaneously enhancing state power and creating new constraints on the actions of both elites and governments.
Trust in Troubled Times is a valuable new perspective on the economic, social, and political history of modern China.

From the 1890s to the 1940s, French State and entrepreneurial companies were enticed to promote French interests, beyond mere colonial targets, for the sake of economic patriotism. Chinese concessions, not including Hong Kong, were thus inserted into geo-economic moves, and French stakeholders asserted their philosophy of competition, and displayed their means of influence and investment. In this book, the author assesses the challenges which confronted French actors in the face of powerful British imperial action overseas, all the more so because German Belgian, Japanese, and then also North-American competitors joined the fray. The book targets three concessions: Canton/Guangzhou, Tientsin/Tianjin, and Hankeou/Wuhan because of their significance in the emergence of a modern economy in the country. The three main sections of the book explore the position of French stakeholders, mainly businessmen, merchant houses, bankers, and a few industrialists, in these three port-cities and China overall. The chapters gauge their capital of influence and networking, commercial tools, and banking skills in the face of competition, the hardships of crossing the changes in economic productive systems or clusters in the various port-cities and their areas, rich with commercial offshoots. Also, several chapters underscore the uncertainties caused by geopolitical and military events in China. For each of the three concessions, commercial and banking systems, assessments of the successes and limits of the French bankers and merchants are investigated, with the aim of evaluating the reality of French entrepreneurialism and power in the regions prospected by the offshoots of French capitalism. The book will be an invaluable resource for academics interested in the history of banking and finance, business, entrepreneurship, colonialism and "economic patriotism" in Chinese history, in geo-economics and in connected history.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

《天津老银行(小)》所展示的天津现存的35家老银行遗址，几乎囊括了近代天津遗存的老银行建筑。书中对其中18家最具代表性的进行了详细介绍，旧址无存的老银行也有相关文字附录于后，共计收录介绍了天津老银行188家，天津老银号、钱庄142家。
这本近300页的设计印制精美的大型画册，是从17000余幅照片中精选360幅精编而成的。作者历时春夏秋冬四季，对老银行建筑由外到内进行了全方位拍摄，无论是全景或局部特写，还是从视角选择到光影运用，无不精心独到，从而使该书不仅富于历史价值，还颇具审美情趣。

本书记录了从1897年仿照西方模式建立第一家中国近代银行，到1937年日本入侵造成中国银行业突然中断的历程。作者利用上海市档案馆、中国人民银行上海支行、中国第二历史档案馆收藏的近代中国各大银行的原始档案，以几家重要华资银行和几位杰出的中国银行家为中心，展示近代中国银行业的演变，探讨这些银行在与国内外同行竞争时采用的商业做法，研究它们迅速增长的原因。这本书有丰富的历史细节，全面阐述了中国现代银行的起源和发展。

《卞白眉日记(共4册)》由天津古籍出版社出版。