... . Meyer, Kathryn , and Terry Parssenin . Webs of Smoke: Smugglers, Warlords Spies, and the History of the International Drug Trade . Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998 . Slack, Edward R.   Opium, State, and Society: China’s Narco-Economy and the Guomindang, 1924...

... changes wrought upon working life in the Customs by the growth of popular nationalism in the 1920s, the rise to power of Chiang Kai-shek's Guomindang (Nationalist Party) in 1927, and the War of Resistance (1937–45). Although the Inspectorate insisted that it was a politically neutral institution...

..., for geographical and climatic reasons, are as predominantly pastoral as those of the Chinese are, or have been in the past, agricultural.’ Lattimore reached these conclusions in the 1930s, at a time when Inner Mongolia’s future hung in the balance, caught between the Japanese, Chinese communist, and Guomindang...

...0 03 04 2003 After Sun’s death in March 1925 the civilian contenders for the succession to the leadership of the Guomindang were veteran revolutionaries who had been closely associated with him since the early days of the Tong Meng Hui: Hu Hanmin, Wang Jingwei, and Liao Zhongkai. Liao, born...

... the ambitious six-year plan would have achieved its declared goal of total elimination cannot be known, for the plan was thrown into chaos when Japan invaded two years later. It explains that although opium suppression lost its priority at the beginning of the war, the Guomindang government rapidly re...

... other. It narrates that Guomindang campaigns made progress in the 1930s. But the project to rid China of opium—like the larger project which loomed behind it, the consolidation of the central state—remained far from complete when Japan invaded in 1937. Gansu Guizhou opium addiction to poppies...

...2013 ‘Yan'an’ charts Mao's time in Yan'an. During the civil war, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were anxious to build an alliance with the Guomindang against Japan. Soon after the civil war ended, the Japanese invaded. Yan'an was far from the fighting, allowing Mao to engage in academic study...

...委員會 Zhongyang gaizao weiyuanhui Nationalist Party of China 中國國民黨 Zhongguo Guomindang KMT business empire of China Democratic Socialist Party 中國民主社會黨 Zhongguo minzhu shehuidang democratic parties 民主黨 minzhu dang socialism xianghu piping ziwo piping 相互批評自我批評 ‘mutual criticism and selfcriticism...

... warfare.” Among propaganda purveyors were cartoon leaflets, usually dropped from aircraft. Themes of leaflets and other cartoons usually were Japanese brutality, Chinese traitors, or Japanese imperialism. The civil war between the Communist and Guomindang parties was rekindled after Japan’s capitulation...

...This chapter describes how the leaders in Shanghai, particularly Du Yuesheng, sought to legitimize their activities and to integrate their gangster systems with the new political and economic structures developed by the Guomindang state. Du was a key broker between the French authorities...

...This chapter outlines the provinice of Guomindang's blind trust in Western science and technology and how these interests resulted in the technocratic and instrumental misunderstanding of the nature of rice supply and consumption. It shows that the food problem legitimized the province's political...

...This chapter evaluates the Guomindang province's attempt to improve domestic rice consumption in Canton through the construction of the Canton-Hankow Railway. Once the Canton-Hankow Railway was complete, their technocratic triumphalism blinded their eyes to the complexity of the rice trade...

...This chapter reviews the overall consequences of the government's National Rice Promotion program. The marketability of Hunan rice was enhanced. The Cantonese rice merchants were suspicious of beginning new business ventures that involved Hunan rice. The Guomindang province's entirely technocratic...

... transnational business. The city was the standard for a series of innovative food control programs that a number of experts developed. The Hunan Rice Sales in the Canton Project was a significant feature of the government-developed National Rice Promotion Program. In developing the Program, the Guomindang...

... following the takeover of the city by the Guomindang (Nationalist Party). Working with an American psychiatrist named Richard Lyman, municipal functionaries in Beijing transformed the local asylum into a modern psychopathic hospital. The hospital was managed by an American-trained neurologist, Wei Yulin...

... of the Chinese people. This chapter shows how, through national campaigns like the New Life Movement, the discourse of mental hygiene was invoked for the twin goals of achieving ideological conformity and extending the authoritarian control of the Guomindang. To the right-wing intelligentsia, this chapter...

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...This chapter considers the history of Taiwanese political cartoons. It shows how Taiwanese political cartooning for much of its early period was a contented lapdog of the Guomindang government. Cartoonists labored under many Guomindang government restraints: working under martial law restrictions...

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... of the Guomindang and the critiques launched by Tianjin's new medical elite form the center of the second case. The third case begins with a lecture on minzu weisheng, or racial hygiene, given in Tianjin in 1935 by the “father of Chinese eugenics,” Pan Guangdan. The last case considers...