Emily M Hill

Smokeless Sugar

The Death of a Provincial Bureaucrat and the Construction of China's National Economy

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Produktbeschreibung

Part history, part biography, and part mystery story, Smokeless Sugar traces the formation of a national economy in China through an intriguing investigation of the 1936 execution of an allegedly corrupt Cantonese official. Feng Rui, a Western-educated agricultural expert, introduced modern sugar milling to China in the 1930s as a key component in a provincial investment program. Before long, however, he was accused of colluding with smugglers to pass foreign sugar off as a domestic product. Emily Hill makes the case that Feng was, in fact, a scapegoat in a multi-sided power struggle in which political leaders vied with commercial players for access to China's markets and tax revenues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780774816540
• ISBN-10: 0774816546
• Artikelnr.: 33619451

Autorenporträt

Emily M. Hill

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 The Formation of Agricultural Expertise: Feng Rui'sEducation and Early
Career
2 Public Service in Guangdong, 1931-36: Economic Nationalism andProvincial
Planning
3  Rice and Revenue: Guangdong's"Benefit Agriculture" Import Taxes
4 White Sugar: Global Business and Provincial Enterprises
5 Bitter Experiences with Sugarcane
6 Brokers, Smugglers, and the Official Sugar Monopoly,1934-36
7 National Reunification and the Punishment of Feng Rui
8 Provincial Sugar Industry Programs, 1945-58
Conclusion: Shaping China's Economic Nation on the Eve ofWar
Notes
Bibliography
Index