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Smokeless Sugar
The Death of a Provincial Bureaucrat and the Construction of China's National Economy
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
1 180 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
Part history, part biography, and part mystery story, SmokelessSugar reveals how the concept of a national economy took shape inChina by investigating the 1936 execution of Feng Rui, a provincialofficial who introduced modern sugar milling in Guangdong.Examining the circumstances of Feng Rui's arrest on charges ofcorruption, Emily Hill traces the construction of a Chinese nationaleconomy through cross-border interactions between industry andagriculture and between China and Japan. She makes the case that Fengwas, in fact, a scapegoat in a multi-sided power struggle in whichpolitical leaders vied with commercial players for access toChina's markets and tax revenues. This illuminating studychallenges conventional wisdom about the effectiveness of theRepublican state in promoting national unity during the Nanjing decadeand highlights continuities in official economic policies from the1930s to the Communist era.
549 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
From 1935 to 1950, Chiang Kai-shek steered China's development as a nation and shaped global history. Yet he remains an enigmatic figure remembered primarily for losing a decisive civil war. A reinterpretation is overdue. Based on Chiang's own writing, particularly his diary, Chiang Kai-shek's Critical Years sheds new light on his call for mobilization against Japan in 1937 and his relations with US representatives during the war; his efforts first to accommodate and then to defeat the Chinese Communist Party; and his ability to hold on to the presidency of the Republic of China after 1949, despite disastrous military failure. This examination of Chiang's daily planning and reflection on events reveals astute improvisation that ensured political survival despite setbacks and weaknesses. The sharpened sense of Chiang's agency that emerges from this important book provides an invaluable foundation for further analysis of the military and political institutional structures he helped build.