| A Springboard to Victory: Shandong Province and Chinese Communist Military and Financial Strength, 1937-1945 Contributor(s): Lai, Sherman Xiaogang (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004198008 ISBN-13: 9789004198005 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $198.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War Ii - History | Asia - China - History | Military - Wars & Conflicts (other) |
| Dewey: 940.535 |
| LCCN: 2010045617 |
| Series: China Studies |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.50 lbs) 378 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese - Chronological Period - 1940's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |