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

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 Japanes...

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Superior document:China studies, v. 19
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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.
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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.