Roads Not Taken: The Struggle Of Opposition Parties In Twentiethcentury China

Studies of the political history of twentieth-century China traditionally have been skewed toward a two-dimensional view of the major combatants: the Chinese Communist Party and the Guomindang. Although their struggle undeniably has been the main story, it is neither the only nor the complete story. During the Republican period (1912-1949), many ed

Roads Not Taken: The Struggle Of Opposition Parties In Twentieth-century China

Krebs, Edward S.

Coble, Parks

Jeans, Roger

Levine, Marilyn M.

Reference

Routledge

In this probing and original study, Parks M. Coble examines the devastating impact of Japan's invasion and occupation of the lower Yangzi on China's emerging modern business community. Arguing that the war gravely weakened Chinese capitalists, Coble demonstrates that in occupied areas the activities of businessmen were closer to collaboration than to heroic resistance. He shows how the war left an important imprint on the structure and culture of Chinese business enterprise by encouraging those traits that had allowed it to survive in uncertain and dangerous times. Although historical memory emphasizes the entrepreneurs who followed the Nationalists armies to the interior, most Chinese businessmen remained in the lower Yangzi area. If they wished to retain any ownership of their enterprises, they were forced to collaborate with the Japanese and the Wang Jingwei regime in Nanjing. Characteristics of business in the decades prior to the war, including a preference for family firms and reluctance to become public corporations, distrust of government, opaqueness of business practices, and reliance of personal connections (guanxi) were critical to the survival of enterprises during the war and were reinforced by the war experience. Through consideration of the broader implications of the many responses to this complex era, Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order makes a substantial contribution to larger discussions of the dynamics of World War II and of Chinese business culture.

Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945

Business & Money

Economics

University of California Press

In "Facing Japan", Parks M. Coble focuses on how events that took place during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria - from 1931 until war erupted in 1937 - affected the Chinese goverment and public opinion. Both in the places where incidents occurred and in other centres of power, Japanese threats, attacks, and economic demands pressed Nationalist China relentlessly and aroused popular indignation. Throughout most of the period, Chiang kai-Shek was trying to wrest control of China from all domestic rivals. Aware that his army was inferior to Japan's his Nationalist government repeatedly made concessions in response to Japanese provocations. Chiang busied himself with anti-Communist campaigns, leaving others to take public responsibility for his unpopular appeasement policies. For such crises as the Mukden Incident and the Japanese attack on Shanghai, Coble examines the tension that Chiang's policy caused within the Kuomintang, and the alternatives put forward by other major leaders both inside and outside the government. To further explore the political complexities of the day, Coble traces the actions of regional leaders and their constantly changing relations to the central government in Nanking, reviews editorials of various newspapers, and chronicles the actions of student organizations and patriotic associations.

Facing Japan: Chinese Politics and Japanese Imperialism, 1931-1937 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

History

Americas

Harvard University Asia Center

The Shanghai Capitalists and the Nationalist Government, 1927-1937, Second Edition (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

A common generalization about the Nationalist Government in China during the 1927-1937 decade has been that Chiang Kai-shek's regime was closely allied with the capitalists in Shanghai. This book brings to light a different picture--that Nanking sought to control the capitalists politically, to prevent them from having a voice in the political structure, and to milk the wealth of the urban economy for government coffers. This study documents major political conflicts between the capitalists and the government and demonstrates that the regime gradually suppressed the main organizations of the capitalists and gained control of many of their financial and industrial enterprises.  This is the first systematic examination of the political role of the Shanghai capitalists during the Nanking decade. A number of related issues--the operation of the government bond market, the role of the Shanghai underworld and its ties to Chiang Kai-shek, the personalities and policies of key government officials such as TV. Soong and H.H. Kung, the Japanese attempt to control the economic policies of the Nanking government, and the growth of "bureaucratic capitalism"--are brought into focus.

Asia

A common generalization about the Nationalist Government in China during the 1927-1937 decade has been that Chiang Kai-shek's regime was closely allied with the capitalists in Shanghai. This book brings to light a different picture--that Nanking sought to control the capitalists politically, to prevent them from having a voice in the political structure, and to milk the wealth of the urban economy for government coffers. This study documents major political conflicts between the capitalists and the government and demonstrates that the regime gradually suppressed the main organizations of the capitalists and gained control of many of their financial and industrial enterprises. 
 This is the first systematic examination of the political role of the Shanghai capitalists during the Nanking decade. A number of related issues--the operation of the government bond market, the role of the Shanghai underworld and its ties to Chiang Kai-shek, the personalities and policies of key government officials such as TV. Soong and H.H. Kung, the Japanese attempt to control the economic policies of the Nanking government, and the growth of "bureaucratic capitalism"--are brought into focus.

Studies of the political history of twentieth-century China traditionally have been skewed toward a two-dimensional view of the major combatants: the Chinese Communist Party and the Guomindang. Although their struggle undeniably has been the main story, it is neither the only nor the complete story. During the Republican period (1912-1949), many educated Chinese rejected both one-party dictatorships, and some boldly founded or supported alternative movements.In this volume, the contributors turn their attention to these neglected parties, groups, and figures, making full use of new materials to provide the first English-language book to study these groups systematically. Tracing the post-1949 fates of some of these opposition movements in Taiwan and the People's Republic of China (PRC), the book also explores the contemporary heirs of the oppositionists of the Republican period - the democratic activists in the Overseas Democracy Movement that mushroomed after the June 1989 massacre in China. The book concludes with an insightful assessment of the parallels between opposition figures of Republican China and those in exile today.

Curran, Thomas D

Westview Press

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Roads Not Taken: The Struggle Of Opposition Parties In Twentieth-century China

Roads Not Taken: The Struggle Of Opposition Parties In Twentiethcentury China

Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945

Facing Japan: Chinese Politics and Japanese Imperialism, 1931-1937 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

The Shanghai Capitalists and the Nationalist Government, 1927-1937, Second Edition (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

The Shanghai Capitalists and the Nationalist Government, 1927-1937, Second Edition (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

Roads Not Taken: The Struggle Of Opposition Parties In Twentieth-century China