Smokeless Sugar: The Death of a Provincial Bureaucrat and the Construction of China's National Economy
Emily M. Hill
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 for access to China’s markets and tax revenues.
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Рік:
2010
Видавництво:
UBC Press
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
304
ISBN 10:
0774816538
ISBN 13:
9780774816533
Серії:
Contemporary Chinese Studies
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PDF, 4.49 MB
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english, 2010