No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

Synopsis

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.-- 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. Felix Boecking. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.