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No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927 1945
Felix Boecking
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Hardback. In this in-depth study, Felix Boecking challenges the widely accepted idea that the key to Communist seizure of power in China lay in the incompetence of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government. It argues instead that international trade, government tariff revenues, and hence China's fiscal policy and state-making project all collapsed. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 260 pages, 13 line illustrations, 5 maps, 12 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; JP; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 229. .
This book, an in-depth study of Nationalist tariff policy, fundamentally challenges the widely accepted idea that the key to the Communist seizure of power in China lay in the incompetence of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government. It argues instead that during the second Sino-Japanese War, China's international trade, the Nationalist government's tariff revenues, and hence its fiscal policy and state-making project all collapsed. Because tariffs on China's international trade produced the single greatest share of central government revenue during the Nanjing decade, the political existence of the Nationalist government depended on tariff revenue. Therefore, Chinese economic nationalism, both ... Read more
This book, an in-depth study of Nationalist tariff policy, fundamentally challenges the widely accepted idea that the key to the Communist seizure of power in China lay in the incompetence of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government. It argues instead that during the second Sino-Japanese War, China's international trade, the Nationalist government's tariff revenues, and hence its fiscal policy and state-making project all collapsed. Because tariffs on China's international trade produced the single greatest share of central government revenue during the Nanjing decade, the political existence of the Nationalist government depended on tariff revenue. Therefore, Chinese economic nationalism, both ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674970601
SKU
V9780674970601
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About Felix Boecking
Felix Boecking is Lecturer in Modern Chinese Economic and Political History at the University of Edinburgh.
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