Smokeless Sugar: The Death of a Provincial Bureaucrat and the Construction of China's National Economy
(Part of the Contemporary Chinese Studies (UBC Press) Series)
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0774816546
ISBN13:9780774816540
Release Date:November 2011
Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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