Smokeless Sugar: The Death of a Provincial Bureaucrat and the Construction of China's National Economy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780774816540)

Part history, part biography, and part mystery story, Smokeless Sugar traces the formation of a national economy in China through an intriguing investigation of the 1936 execution of an allegedly corrupt Cantonese official. Feng Rui, a Western-educated agricultural expert, introduced modern sugar milling to China in the 1930s as a key component in a provincial investment program. Before long, however, he was accused of colluding with smugglers to pass foreign sugar off as a domestic product. Emily Hill makes the case that Feng was, in fact, a scapegoat in a multi-sided power struggle in which political leaders vied with commercial players for access to China's markets and tax revenues.

Author: Emily M. Hill
ISBN-10: 0774816546
ISBN-13: 9780774816540
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2011
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d