The Abortive Revolution: China Under Nationalist Rule, 1927-1937

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Preface Acknowledgments Contents Chapter 1 “The Revolution Has Failed” Ineffectual Administration Corruption Political Repression Chapter 2 The Blue Shirts and Fascism Origins of the Movement The Ideology of Chinese Fascism The Organization and Its Names Blue Shirt Activities Chapter 3 The Fukien Rebellion Ch’en Ming-shu and the Nineteenth Route Army The Third Party Reform in Fukien Preparations for Revolution The Rebel Government and Its Ideology The Race for Allies The Fukien Revolutionaries and the Kiangsi Communists Fukien and the Japanese The Course and Collapse of the Rebellion Chapter 4 Democracy and Dictatorship: Competing Models of Government Democracy under Attack Power Politics in Constitution-Drafting Chapter 5 Nanking and the Economy Agrarian Depression, 1931-1935 The Land Taxes Indirect Taxes Ad Hoc Impositions and Conscription The Cooperative Movement Accomplishments in Rural Reconstruction The Urban Economy Class Basis of the Kuomintang Chapter 6 On the Eve of the War The New National Mood A Balance-Sheet of the Decade Chapter 7 Social Traits and Political Behavior in Kuomintang China Weak Political Institutions Politically Relevant Social Traits Ineffectual Administration Corruption Factionalism Political Repression Notes Bibliography Glossary Index