ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the Chinese-contextualized case study of China Construction Bank Corporation (CCBC). It is important to take a closer look at the underlying orientation of the conventional Chinese commercial banks in order to develop a deeper understanding of the Chinese financial industry. The application of critical theory is seen as an essential component of studying finance so that an interdisciplinary knowledge base underlying the Chinese financial industry can be created in order to build a Finance-in-Society Model (FISM) taking into account both Chinese philosophy and western financial rationale. The CCBC case represents a typical example and provides a better understanding of the current state of conventional banking in China, whilst the case of Catalyst Foundation operates within the quite different FISM of this research. Critical theory is the core methodology of this research with feminism applied as a secondary methodology.
