As most of Chinese open-ports were incorporated into the modern world system in the 20th century, foreign sugar import volume went on increasing rapidly. It was the main cause of this phenomenon that Chinese purchasing power was improved around this p...
As most of Chinese open-ports were incorporated into the modern world system in the 20th century, foreign sugar import volume went on increasing rapidly. It was the main cause of this phenomenon that Chinese purchasing power was improved around this period. The Chinese consumer spent more their Improved purchasing power on buying foreign sugar than Chinese sugar. It was partly because the price competitiveness of Chinese sugar was weaker than that of foreign sugar, and partly because consumers were increasingly turning to prefer foreign sugar, and partly because used place of foreign sugar was more and more increased. In this period, the Chinese white sugar market was mainly accounted for a competition between the Hongkong sugar and the Japanese sugar in previous studies. And Java sugar mainly mentioned its role as a source of raw material and its status as an export after the 1930s. But if you look at the Chinese white sugar market at this time, it was a three-way race, first with Hongkong sugar, then Japanese sugar, and then with Java sugar joining the market. Before the modernization of Chinese sugar in the 1930s, the Chinese white sugar market had increased its share by competing with each other in a growing market, not by sharing a certain market share with foreign sugars.