And his father was a comprador for the powerful Sassoon trading house.

These classes are widely known by the label 'comprador' though this term has attracted a great deal of criticism.

A comprador mentality is the attitude that the best practices are invariably connected with the global capitalist system.

Imperialist domination, comprador capitalism and governance of bureaucracy were to be eliminated.

What is the comprador of Sawyer & Sons doing talking with a Soviet spy?

This is the new comprador class.

Although the comprador class in one form or another has existed for centuries, the transnational capitalist class is a relatively new phenomenon.

The transnational capitalist class can exact a much higher price for its services than the comprador class ever could, for two reasons.

"Comprador bourgeoisie" was their term for the bourgeois classes, who made a living by financial dealings and through transactions with Westerners.

Sawyer's own comprador for years, Peter Ng, was Bluestone's agent.

All went as the comprador had planned until Shi Zilin had once again stepped in.

But this reduces the distinction between the national and the comprador bourgeoisie to a quite arbitrary judgement on what constitutes national development.

Once Chen Ju had been Barton Sawyer's most trusted comprador.

As it is, more or less by definition, an extra First World phenomenon, the question of the comprador mentality will be resumed in the next chapter.

Additionally, each foreign vessel had to contract a comprador who was responsible for supplying the ships with provisions and servicing the factories on shore.

An accountant and a comprador of sufficient guile and daring could manage to steal that much money over a specific period of time.

The comprador bourgeoisie are essentially upper-class citizens who act as agents to sell out their country to international interests in exchange for personal gain and wealth.

No pague cargos adelantados para trabajar como comprador encubierto.

The merchants were conservative and reactionary, and their leader, Chen Lianbao, was a prominent comprador trader.

Unlike other Indian cities, Amehdabad lacked a comprador class or dominant, Western-educated middle class.

The term comprador, a Portuguese word that means buyer, derives from the Latin comparare, which means to procure.

However, they are forced to part and Manlu eventually marries a comprador (Zhu Hongca) instead.

That exalted position would have gone to Chen Ju, Barton Sawyer's trusted comprador.

So the idea of the transnational capitalist class includes fractions of both the old indigenous bourgeoisie and the comprador bourgeoisie.

He mopped his brow with a white linen handkerchief, thinking, It's damnably hot to be chasing all around the Western District after my comprador.