Abstract:

(School of Social Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444)Abstract： 〖WTBZ]In modern Shanghai, Ningbo businessmen, with their given conditions of community structures and group features, became a strong force that could not be neglected in Shanghai' s economic circle. Shortly before and after the 1930s, Shanghai' s social economy was facing an unprecedented predicament. But Ningbo businessmen in Shanghai, under the circumstance of "hope and despair coexisted, and success and failure alternated", coped ingeniously with timevarying and brought out the best in them, achieving remarkable success in the circles of industry and commerce. During this period, the contradictory phenomenon of "prosperity in crises", not only reflected the social feature of modern Shanghai' s heterogeneity and diversity, but also displayed China's characteristics of "followingsurpassing" at that time.

Key words: Coping Ingeniously with Time, Varying, :, the Treatment and Contending
of Ningbo Merchants for Multiple Crises, in Modern Shanghai