Distant Thunder: The Regional Economies of Southwest China and the Impact of the Great Depression

Wright, Tim

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“…Agricultural regions varied in their degree of commercialization and susceptibility to external market fluctuations. Many interior areas, as Wright's (2000) study of the southwest shows, remained weakly commercialized and did not experience serious economic dislocations caused by the global economic crisis. As far as north China is concerned, Myers (1971:278) states:…”

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Modernization Interrupted? Total War, State Breakdown, and the Communist Conquest of China

Osinsky

2010

The Sociological Quarterly

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A state-centered perspective in studies of revolutions holds that international pressures contribute to outbreak of revolutions, assuming that the magnitude and intensity of international pressures vary from case to case. This study argues that in the paradigmatic communist revolutions of the 20th century, such as the Russian and Chinese Revolutions, the role of the exogenous factor of war was paramount. After outlining a war-centered framework for studying communist revolutions, this research shows how the devastating experience of total war against Japan (1937)(1938)(1939)(1940)(1941)(1942)(1943)(1944)(1945) undermined the Kuomintang state in China and created structural conditions for the communist takeover.

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Modernization Interrupted? Total War, State Breakdown, and the Communist Conquest of China

Osinsky

2010

The Sociological Quarterly

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“… Fox 1994, e.g, explicitly argues against the notion of fast-equilibrating inter-provincial labour and commodity markets that Brandt and Rawski propose for early twentieth-century China. Though broadly in the same church as Rawski, Wright too observed that Chinese factor markets did not function well in the hinterland(Wright 2000). In her newly published monumental work, LillianLi (2007, pp.…”

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The Pendulum Swings Again: Recent Debates on China's Prewar Economy

Horesh¹

2009

International Journal of Asian Studies

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introductionThe aim of this brief survey is to provide a critical review of studies of China's economic history recently published by prominent Western scholars. It will explore two veins of scholarly debates that underlie Western perceptions of both China's past and its trajectory of future development, and also consider the historic significance of joint-stock enterprise in China as opposed to Britain and Japan.A fairly recent vein of debate concerns the performance of the Chinese economy under the late-Qing and KMT rule. Another more "ancient" debate branched off Max Weber's seminal workpublished almost a century agoon the factors that had positioned Europe politically and economically ahead of China from the sixteenth century onward. 1 The more recent debate began in late 1989 when Thomas Rawski and Loren Brandt published markedly positive estimates of per capita Chinese agricultural productivity growth in the century preceding the second Sino-Japanese War (1937). Rawski and Brandt systematically revised what had been until then a dismal portrayal of living standards in the Chinese hinterland, winning over in the process respected veterans of the discipline such as Ramon Myers. Based on elaborate econometric analyses of land surveys and price data, they concluded that total agricultural output between 1850 and 1937 overtook population gains by up to one percent annually. 2 Despite Myers's endorsement, these revisionist views have since been contested by numerous other scholars, who point to the failings in Republican agrarian reforms , and who challenge the assumptions that underlie Rawski and Brandt's findings. 3 In particular, Rawski and Brandt's premise of efficient factor markets at work I wish to thank Prof Hans Hendrischke, Head, UNSW School of Languages and Linguistics as well as the UNSW Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences for generous research support that helped bring this article to fruition.

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“…34 He commented that the Xikang languages are "easy to learn but difficult to master" and provided readers with some introductory sentences in Xikang tujing. 35 According to Ren, all the Han who went to Xikang soon learnt such phrases and, after one or two years, could conduct conversations in the local tongues. 36 (Those in higher leadership posts appear to have been the exception: "It is unheard of for Han governors to be able to understand Fan [Tibetan] languages."…”

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“…In 1939 the 34 Ren Naiqiang, Xikang tujing: minsu pian 西康图经: 民俗篇 (Shanghai: Shanghai shudian, 1996Shanghai shudian, [1933), 204. 35 Ibid.…”

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Xikang: Han Chinese in Sichuan's Western Frontier, 1905-1949

Lawson¹

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<p>This thesis is about Han Chinese engagement with the ethnically diverse highlands west and south-west of the Sichuan basin in the first half of the twentieth century. This territory, which includes much of the Tibetan Kham region as well as the mostly Yi- and Han-settled Liangshan, constituted Xikang province between 1939 and 1955. The thesis begins with an analysis of the settlement policy of the late Qing governor Zhao Erfeng, as well as the key sources of influence on it. Han authority suffered setbacks in the late 1910s, but recovered from the mid-1920s under the leadership of General Liu Wenhui, and the thesis highlights areas of similarity and difference between the Zhao and Liu periods. Although contemporaries and later historians have often dismissed the attempts to build Han Chinese dominated local governments in the highlands as failures, this endeavour was relatively successful in a limited number of places. Such success, however, did not entail the incorporation of territory into an undifferentiated Chinese whole. Throughout the highlands, pre-twentieth century local institutions, such as the wula corvée labour tax in Kham, continued to exercise a powerful influence on the development and nature of local and regional government. The thesis also considers the long-term life (and death) of ideas regarding social transformation as developed by leaders and historians of the highlands.</p>

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Distant Thunder: The Regional Economies of Southwest China and the Impact of the Great Depression

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Modernization Interrupted? Total War, State Breakdown, and the Communist Conquest of China

Modernization Interrupted? Total War, State Breakdown, and the Communist Conquest of China

The Pendulum Swings Again: Recent Debates on China's Prewar Economy

Xikang: Han Chinese in Sichuan's Western Frontier, 1905-1949

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