On the Path to Self-Reliance: China's Tariff, Monetary, and Economic Policies Between the Two World Wars

Author: Kubo Kō
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: This book is a representative work by Professor Kubo Kō, a renowned Japanese economic historian, on the economic history of the Republic of China. Based on a large number of archives accessible to domestic scholars, including those from Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, as well as relevant archives of the Nanjing Nationalist Government and other materials, the author focuses on the Nanjing Nationalist Government's recovery of tariff autonomy, changes in tax policies, and efforts at currency reform before the outbreak of the War of Resistance in 1937. It explores the intricate domestic and international relationships in the pre-war international context of East Asia, highlighting the Nanjing government's efforts to restore political sovereignty and promote economic development, as well as the various constraints it faced. From different perspectives, the author presents his own insights.