A springboard to victory : Shandong Province and Chinese communist military and financial strength, 1937-1945 / / by Sherman Xiaogang Lai.

• Superior document: China studies, v. 19
• Author: Lai, Sherman Xiaogang.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Did the Chinese Communists use money or banking systems during their struggle for national power? In the West, this question was not answered, or even raised, for sixty years after the Communists took over China in 1949. This book examines the Communists’ revenue and supply system during the Japanese occupation in Shandong, a coastal province in northern China. It explores how the Communists manipulated currency exchange rates to turn trade within the occupied zones into their principal source of revenue and transform the Japanese army and navy into their most important customers. Thus enabling them to stockpile the materials needed for the race against the Nationalists into Manchuria, China’s only industrialized area, immediately after Japan’s surrender.

Table of Contents

The birth of the CCP military-fiscal state in Shandong -- Moving towards confrontation -- Escalation and the CCP's financial framework -- Institutions of economic control -- Pre-Pearl Harbor policy changes -- From the strategies of confrontation to Time-killing -- Perseverance -- Financial pressure, Xu Muqiao, and salt -- Turning point and encroachments -- Accessing the enemy's resources for post-war rivalry -- The campaign to reduce rents and interest rates -- Glossary -- Documents of the CCP central authorities -- Mao Zedong -- Authorities in Shandong -- Documents on economic affairs in wartime Shandong -- Archival materials -- Memoirs, collected works, and scholarly works -- English language sources.