Abstract:

With the incessant advance of the productive forces, the England gild changed its forms of organization.Roughly speaking, the English gild went through three developmental stages, namely, gild merchant, craft gild and company.The Chinese gild and the England gild shared some common nature.However, restricted by the social and economical environment of the Chinese feudal cities, the Chinese gild had its uniqueness in terms of forms of organization.Firstly, the Chinese gild never took the forms of organization such as the English gild merchant and company.The craft gild was the sole organization of Chinese gild.Secondly, some Chinese gilds were apparently native-place organizations.The craft and commerce gildhall with economic functions was a model of this kind of gild organizations.

Key words: the English gild, the Chinese gild, organization