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Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 (review)

Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 (review) Reviews 379 Parks M. Coble. Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937 –1945 . Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2003. xii, 296 pp. Hardcover $60.00, isbn 0–520–23268 –2. Parks M. Coble’s Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order completes a trilogy of books, thematically intertwined, but each able to stand on its own merits. Inter- estingly enough, his first, Shanghai Capitalists and the Nationalist Government, 1927 –1937 , shows that the Guomindang (GMD) initially depended greatly on the Shanghai business community for the GMD’s rise to power, but subsequently controlled the business community in order to advance the GMD’s own centrist programs. In Coble’s second book, Facing Japan, 1931 –1937 , he not only continues the chronological treatment but changes partners, so to speak, concentrating on the GMD-directed policy of appeasement-cum-resistance against the Japanese. The Shanghai business community virtually disappears in this book. Now, in the book under review, which covers the wartime period of 1937 to 1945 , we have the interplay of the Japanese with the Shanghai business community, where, in Japa- nese-occupied China, this community had to survive as best it could under changing Japanese policies, and the GMD http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 (review)

China Review International , Volume 10 (2) – Aug 6, 2004

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Reviews 379 Parks M. Coble. Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order: The Occupied Lower Yangzi, 1937 –1945 . Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2003. xii, 296 pp. Hardcover $60.00, isbn 0–520–23268 –2. Parks M. Coble’s Chinese Capitalists in Japan’s New Order completes a trilogy of books, thematically intertwined, but each able to stand on its own merits. Inter- estingly enough, his first, Shanghai Capitalists and the Nationalist Government, 1927 –1937 , shows that the Guomindang (GMD) initially depended greatly on the Shanghai business community for the GMD’s rise to power, but subsequently controlled the business community in order to advance the GMD’s own centrist programs. In Coble’s second book, Facing Japan, 1931 –1937 , he not only continues the chronological treatment but changes partners, so to speak, concentrating on the GMD-directed policy of appeasement-cum-resistance against the Japanese. The Shanghai business community virtually disappears in this book. Now, in the book under review, which covers the wartime period of 1937 to 1945 , we have the interplay of the Japanese with the Shanghai business community, where, in Japa- nese-occupied China, this community had to survive as best it could under changing Japanese policies, and the GMD

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Published: Aug 6, 2004

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