No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927-1945

by Felix Boecking

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674970608
• ISBN13: 9780674970601
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"