Mentality Analyzation Of The Comprador In 19 Century(1840-1900)

The comprador is a new social class emerging in modern China, led by western invasion. Speaking historically, the comprador spreads all social realms in the whole modern age. The comprador worked particularly vividly in Chinese modern style business enterprise. Exploration on the comprador is an important topic to understand modern age China. In view of Marxism, the historical problem is also a mental problem. This thesis analyze the comprador from the perspective of mentality history.This thesis consists of four parts. Part I reviews the related studies and theories; Part II narrates the history of comprador creation, development and extinction; Part 3 is main part of the thesis, analyzing the mentality of comprador. Part IV leads to a brief conclusion.The comprador had the humble psychology, abnormal flaunt psychology, speculating psychology and achievement motive in the nineteenth century. Through the study of the four mentality characteristics, we can understand the social complexity and the difficulty of modernization in Chinese modern age.