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No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945, written by Felix Boecking

No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945, written by Felix... (Cambridge, ma: Harvard University Press, 2017). 280 pp. $39.95 (cloth).No Great Wall is a sturdy economic history of Republican China, offering a fresh look at the fall of the Guomindang (gmd) / Nationalist government, drawing upon archival materials from China, Britain, Germany, and the United States, as well as extensive use of Chinese and British government documents. Central to Felix Boecking’s thesis is the link between tariff revenue—generated largely from international trade—and the gmd’s attempts to modernize the Chinese state. In the Nanjing decade between 1927 and 1937, tariffs provided the central government with as much as forty percent of its tax revenue, and eighty percent of that came from China’s eastern seaboard. As such, tariff revenues played a crucial role in the gmd’s governance. The outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in July 1937 resulted in Nationalist China losing access to the vibrant trading cities of the coastal provinces, and with them, any real chance of financing Chiang Kai-shek’s ambitious development plans.Boecking stresses that this book is not an apology for the gmd, but rather “an attempt to understand more closely . . . its nature and the causes of its eventual demise” (p. 16). The dominant narrative about http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American-East Asian Relations Brill

No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945, written by Felix Boecking

Fulton, Jonathan
Journal of American-East Asian Relations , Volume 24 (4): 2 – Oct 31, 2017
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(Cambridge, ma: Harvard University Press, 2017). 280 pp. $39.95 (cloth).No Great Wall is a sturdy economic history of Republican China, offering a fresh look at the fall of the Guomindang (gmd) / Nationalist government, drawing upon archival materials from China, Britain, Germany, and the United States, as well as extensive use of Chinese and British government documents. Central to Felix Boecking’s thesis is the link between tariff revenue—generated largely from international trade—and the gmd’s attempts to modernize the Chinese state. In the Nanjing decade between 1927 and 1937, tariffs provided the central government with as much as forty percent of its tax revenue, and eighty percent of that came from China’s eastern seaboard. As such, tariff revenues played a crucial role in the gmd’s governance. The outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in July 1937 resulted in Nationalist China losing access to the vibrant trading cities of the coastal provinces, and with them, any real chance of financing Chiang Kai-shek’s ambitious development plans.Boecking stresses that this book is not an apology for the gmd, but rather “an attempt to understand more closely . . . its nature and the causes of its eventual demise” (p. 16). The dominant narrative about

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