No Great Wall : trade, tariffs, and nationalism in Republican China, 1927-1945 / Felix Boecking.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boecking, Felix, 1981- author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 397.

Harvard East Asian monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zhongguo guo min dang.

Tariff.

History.

China--Economic policy--1912-1949.

China.

Economic policy.

China--Commerce--History--20th century.

Commerce.

Tariff--China--History--20th century.

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Economic aspects--China.

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.

Economics.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2017.

Summary:

"This 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 government's tariff revenues, and its fiscal policy and state-making project all collapsed."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Nationalism, nationalists, and informal empire

Making nationalist tariff policy

The maritime customs as economic modernity

Nationalist tariff policy and the import trade

Trade, tariffs, and governance

Trade, tariffs, and war, 1937-1945

Conclusion

Appendix 1. Custom houses

Appendix 2. Chinese and Japanese names.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index.

ISBN:

9780674970601

0674970608

OCLC:

937368096

Publisher Number:

40027280641