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Strong Institutions in Weak Polities: State Building in Republican China, 1927-1940
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by Julia C. Strauss. 272 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Julia C. Strauss

Publisher:

   Clarendon Press

Place of Publication:

  Oxford  

Publication Year:

  1998
Subjects:   Bureaucracy--China, China--Politics And Government--1928-1937, China--Politics And Government--1937-1945
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1.
Strong Institutions in Weak Polities: State Building in Republican China, 1927-1940
Book by Julia C. Strauss; Clarendon Press, 1998
Subjects: Bureaucracy--China, China--Politics And Government--1928-1937, China--Politics And Government--1937-1945
...Julia C. Strauss. p. cm. -- Studies on contemporary China Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Bureaucracy--China. 2. China--Politics and government--1928-1937. 3. China--Politics and government--1937-1945. I. Title. II. Series...
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Chinese-Soviet Relations, 1937-1945: The Diplomacy of Chinese Nationalism
Book by John W. Garver; Oxford University Press, 1988
Subjects: China--Foreign Relations--Soviet Union, China--Politics And Government--1937-1945, Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--China
...from October 1936 to November 1937; Sun Ke, who was head of the legislative...legislative organ of the Republic of China government and son of Sun Yat-sen; and Yang...orientation and "progressivism" within China. The Formation of the Sino...Nonaggression Treaty of August 1937 formed the basis for the close...1932 when the Soviet and Chinese governments were discussing the normalization...did in fact propose to the Chinese government the conclusion of a treaty of mutual security. On 5 June 1937, Ambassador Bogomolov informed...that, since the Soviet Union and China sought a similar "environment...
3.
The U.S. Crusade in China, 1938-1945
Book by Michael Schaller; Columbia University Press, 1979
Subjects: China--Foreign Relations--United States, China--Politics And Government--1937-1945, United States--Foreign Relations--China, World War, 1939-1945--China
...leadership he would forge a united China whose source of strength lay in military...secret police, education, propaganda, bureaucracy, etc.--rather than clashing ideologies...Nationalists, a marriage later known as the China Lobby. 30 Soongs methods reflected...
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Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945
Book by Parks M. Coble; University of California Press, 2003
Subjects: China--Foreign Relations--Japan, Japan--Foreign Relations--China, Shanghai (China)--Economic Conditions, Shanghai (China)--Politics And Government, Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945--Economic Aspects--China--Shanghai
...M. Coble. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-520-23268-2 (cloth : alk. paper). 1. Shanghai (China) Economic conditions. 2. Shanghai (China) Politics and government. 3. China Foreign relations Japan. 4. Japan Foreign...
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The Challenge of Red China
Book by Gunther Stein; Pilot Press Ltd., 1945
Subjects: China--Politics And Government--1937-1945, China--Social Conditions--1912-1949, Communism--China
...Associated Press on February 25, 1945, after his release from a Japanese...various parties and groups in China. But I found them not without...they attacked China in July, 1937. For two years or so there was...the Communists for the National Government. The Red Army was submitted to...Regions territory which the National Government had recognized in 1937 as the special administrative and...of the Communists an enemy of China," I was told by Dr. Hollington...charge all political parties in China with the promotion of the countrys...realization of constitutional democratic government, and with sincere efforts for a...done since the war broke out in 1937 has infringed on these principles...
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Opium and the Politics of Gangsterism in Nationalist China, 1927-1945
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...WWW Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre (1937-1938), humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/NanjingMassacre/NM.html...Chinese who died during Japans invasion and occupation of China (1931-1945). (2) A permanent museum is planned for Washington...org/Viewpoints/yoshida.htm (l0.) Yoshiko Nozaki, "Japanese Politics and the History Textbook Controversy, 1982-2001," International...by Chinese historians, have also long been used by Chinas government and in Chinese history textbooks. The same figures became...
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Cultural Identity and the Politics of Difference in South China
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...remained. But 1949 brought many refugees from various parts of China, particularly Shanghainese entrepreneurs.(40) By 1953, when...their motherland" and their hometowns in South China. The "politics of native roots" works to an extent. The regime plays up...territorial bond, and family pride. Ironically, the Chinese government can count on the efforts of the recent refugees at the grass-roots...Expansion and Peasant Livelihood in Jiangsu and Guangdong, 1870-1937 (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1989). (18) See Myron...
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Anti-Japanese Activities in North Borneo before World War Two, 1937-1941
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Personnel Discipline and Industrial Relations on the Railways of Republican China
Journal article by Stephen L. Morgan; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 47, 2001
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...Lin, The Chinese Railways Past and Present (Shanghai: China United Press, 1937), pp. 139-53, and The Chinese Yearbook 1935-36 (Shanghai...Guomindang (Nationalist) Party established the Nationalist Government capital at Nanjing. I use Beijing or Beiping in the...contested concept, though, a product as much of workplace politics and culture as of ability and knowledge ("genuine skill...trends, see Lloyd E. Eastman, The Abortive Revolution: China under Nationalist Rule, 1927-1937 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974...23 July 2000, revised for the Australian Journal of Politics and History. Dr Stephen Morgan (PhD, ANU; MA, Hong...
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Japan's Economy: Lazarus or Rip Van Winkle? Japan's Decade-Old Recession, Perpetuated by the Country's Huge Bureaucracy, Threatens the World Economy, but There Are Signs of Hope on the Horizon
Magazine article by Balbina Hwang; World and I, Vol. 17, January 2002
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`Unbiased' China Data Needed, Senator Insists
Newspaper article by Bill Gertz; The Washington Times, September 15, 2000
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Bush Challenges China in Initial Policy Speech
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...Never again should an American president fall silent when China criticizes our security ties with Japan," he added...president, America will pay its dues, but only if the U.N. bureaucracy is reformed, and our disproportionate share of its costs...
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White House to Enforce China Trade
Newspaper article by Carter Dougherty; The Washington Times, May 4, 2000
Subjects: China, World Trade Organization
White House to enforce China trade by Carter Dougherty The Clinton administration...intellectual property. "There is hardly a part of the Chinese government bureaucracy that is not touched by this agreement," Mr. Lardy said. Also yesterday...
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Soong
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
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Japan
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