|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910779358803321 |
|
|
Autore |
Hill Emily M. <1957-> |
|
|
Titolo |
Smokeless sugar [[electronic resource] ] : the death of a provincial bureaucrat and the construction of China's national economy / / Emily M. Hill |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-283-71678-X |
0-7748-1655-4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (337 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Contemporary Chinese Studies |
Contemporary Chinese studies, , 1206-9523 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Sugar - Manufacture and refining - China - Guangdong Sheng - History - 20th century |
Guangdong Sheng (China) Politics and government 20th century |
China Politics and government 1928-1937 |
China Economic conditions 1912-1949 |
Guangdong Sheng (China) Officials and employees Biography |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references (p. [290]-309) and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
1 The Formation of Agricultural Expertise: Feng Rui's Education and Early Career -- 2 Public Service in Guangdong, 1931-36 : Economic Nationalism and Provincial 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 of War. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Part history, part biography, and part mystery story, Smokeless Sugar reveals how the concept of a national economy took shape in China by investigating the 1936 execution of Feng Rui, a provincial official who introduced modern sugar milling in Guangdong. Examining the circumstances of Feng Rui's arrest on charges of corruption, Emily Hill traces the construction of a Chinese national economy through cross- |
|
|
|
|