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 ; 397

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.

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

Tariff.

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

China.

China--Economic policy--1912-1949.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 282 pages )

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:

Nationalism, nationalists and informal empire

Making nationalist tariff policy

The customs as economic modernity

Nationalist tariff policy and the import trade

Trade, tariffs and governance

Trade, tariffs and war, 1937-1945.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-68417-572-0

OCLC:

1132221035

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684175727 DOI