救亡图存压力下的近代中国面临市场经济的转向,由此成为东亚乃至世界市场网络中不可或缺的重要一环。但中国经济转型亦有自己的历史惯性及路径。19世纪60年代初开始的洋务运动意味着官督商办的体制探索,以求富为旨趣的民用企业尤以开平矿务局、轮船招商局、电报总局、上海机器织布局为著名。命途多舛的民用企业以开平矿务局的资产易为墨林、东方辛迪加再至中英矿务有限公司的曲折过程为代表。围绕求权还是争利,袁世凯、张翼各自的利益集团提出了解决中外开平矿权纠葛的意见、主张乃至方案。面对袁世凯步步紧逼,张翼被迫往伦敦诉讼,诉讼涉及新成立的英中有限公司本金100万英镑及虚股、移交约与副约两者互为矛盾的合法性等。张翼诉讼也在此框架内展开。张翼伦敦诉讼既有法理上争取副约权益的诉求,也有维持自己在清廷官场面子的需要。张翼诉讼因报刊上有效舆论议程设置而在面子上有所获益,开平矿权却在新政语境中渐次加速丧失。 Under the pressure of national salvation, modern China is faced with the shift of the market economy, which has become an indispensable and important part of the market network in East Asia and the world. However, China’s economic restructuring also has its own historical inertia and path. The Westernization Movement, which began in the early 1960s, meant institutional exploration by the government in charge and by the merchants. Civilian enterprises with the aim of seeking wealth were famous especially for the Kaiping Mining Bureau, the China Merchants Steam Navigation Bureau, the General Administration of Telegraph, and the Shanghai Machinery Fabrication Bureau. Civil enterprises with far-reaching life represented by the tortuous process in which the assets of the Kaiping Mining Bureau are easy to be Molin, Oriental Syndication and Sino-British Mining Co., Ltd. again. Around the pursuit of power or the fight for profits, Yuan Shikai, Zhang Yi, the interests of their respective groups set up to solve the disputes Kaiping Chinese and foreign opinions, advocates and even programs. In the face of Yuan Shikai pressing harder and harder, Zhang Yi was forced to litigation in London, the lawsuit involving the newly formed British Limited principal of one million pounds and the imaginary shares, the transfer of the Covenant and the mutual contradiction between the two legitimacy. Zhang wing litigation is also carried out within this framework. Zhang Wing’s litigation in London not only pursues the claim of the rights and interests of the co-parties but also the need of maintaining his own face in the Qing court. Zhang Yi’s lawsuit benefited from the establishment of an effective media agenda in newspapers and magazines. However, the mining rights in Kaiping gradually accelerated and lost in the New Deal context.