Financial Capitalism on the Periphery: the 'Rubber Boom' on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, 1908-1912

This research focuses on the Shanghai 'rubber boom' (and bust) between 1908 and 1912, and explains the travails of the early SSE as distinctly characteristic for peripheral capital centers and their currencies of denomination. The Shanghai 'rubber boom' is taken as a catastrophic instance that characterized how the very connections between central and peripheral markets (and their respective currencies) at the same time constituted the boundaries that sharply divided both.