A springboard to victory : Shandong Province and Chinese communist military and financial strength, 1937-1945 /

Based on documents published in China, this book examines the reasons behind the Chinese Communists success during the Sino-Japanese War demythologizing Maoist guerrilla warfare by revealing the links between the Communists military and financial might during the Japanese occupation.

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Main Author: Lai, Sherman Xiaogang (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011
Series:China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 19.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The birth of the CCP military-fiscal state in Shandong
  • Moving towards confrontation
  • Escalation and the CCP's financial framework
  • Institutions of economic control
  • Pre-Pearl Harbor policy changes
  • From the strategies of confrontation to Time-killing
  • Perseverance
  • Financial pressure, Xu Muqiao, and salt
  • Turning point and encroachments
  • Accessing the enemy's resources for post-war rivalry
  • The campaign to reduce rents and interest rates
  • Glossary
  • Documents of the CCP central authorities
  • Mao Zedong
  • Authorities in Shandong
  • Documents on economic affairs in wartime Shandong
  • Archival materials
  • Memoirs, collected works, and scholarly works
  • English language sources.