A springboard to victory : Shandong Province and Chinese communist military and financial strength, 1937-1945

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    • Lai, Sherman Xiaogang

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A springboard to victory : Shandong Province and Chinese communist military and financial strength, 1937-1945

by Sherman Xiaogang Lai

(China studies / editors, Glen Dudbridge, Frank Pieke, v. 19)

Brill, 2011

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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.

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Introduction Chapter One: The Birth of the CCP Military-fiscal State in Shandong Chapter Two: Moving Towards Confrontation Chapter Three: Escalation and the CCP's Financial Framework Chapter Four: Institutions of Economic Control Chapter Five: Pre-Pearl Harbor Policy Changes Chapter Six: From the Strategies of Confrontation to Time-killing Chapter Seven: Perseverance Chapter Eight: Financial Pressure, Xu Muqiao and Salt Chapter Nine: Turning Point and Encroachments Chapter Ten: Accessing the Enemy's Resources for Post-war Rivalry Chapter Eleven: The Campaign to Reduce Rents and Interest Rates Chapter Twelve: Conclusion

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