Reports, 1984-1987

These are monthly reports provided by Joseph H. Greene as Vice-President and Representative of Bank of America in Beijing. The reports begin on December 31, 1983 and continue through September 1987. They provide a variety of types of information about China, including economic and political commentary on a broad scale as well as internal information about the company, including marketing, personnel, and other information. Examples of economic data include oil and cotton production, trade, competition from other banks, research (ie: animal husbandry or reforestation); political topics include Premier Zhao Ziyang's trip to the U.S. and Canada, a visit by the U.S. President to China, the U.S.-China nuclear agreement, and the 1986-90 five-year plan. Documents also touch on the fall of Hu Yao Bang; marketing topics reflect the vast networking of Bank of America with other banks; personnel topics reflect travel related to bank business and visitors from other banks. Attached to these reports often are newspaper clippings from local newspapers, frequently China Daily, relating to bank business.