...This chapter describes how Wang Jingwei's and Chen Gongbo's idea of minzu economy led the National Economic Council (NEC) leaders to embrace corporativism. The NEC became a corporativist organization, merging worldwide fascist trends with reform practices initiated in the Self...

.... National economic reconstruction was the Wang-Song group's claim to political legitimacy. Nationalism played an important role in cementing the unity of state and society in the corporativist organization of the state. Today's China is not experiencing the urgency of the 1930s national crisis...