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“National Rice” at the Market “National Rice” at the Market
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Making Improvements to National Rice Making Improvements to National Rice
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The Guomindang Way The Guomindang Way
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Teaching a New Dietary Lifestyle (Shishenghuo) Teaching a New Dietary Lifestyle (Shishenghuo)
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The Canton Famine The Canton Famine
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The Battlefield of Provincialism The Battlefield of Provincialism
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The Founding of the South China Rice Trading Corporation The Founding of the South China Rice Trading Corporation
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Conclusion Conclusion
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9 Provincial Politics and National Rice: The Canton Famine of 1936–1937 and the South China Rice Trading Corporation
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Published:January 2011
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Abstract
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 understanding of the rice trade led in a series of fatal effects. The South China Rice Trading Corporation (SCRTC) brought reconciliation between Canton's foreign-rice merchants and national-rice merchants in the rice-producing provinces. It would also monopolize all aspects of the foreign-rice trade centered in Canton and other port cities in southern China. Once the SCRTC had been founded, the sharp distinction between national rice and foreign rice immediately blurred. As the SCRTC claimed to control south China's entire foreign-rice trade under the auspices of the Guomindang regime, now no one had to distinguish “foreign rice” from “national rice”.
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