In this in-depth study, Felix Boecking challenges the widely accepted idea that the key to Communist seizure of power in China lay in the incompetence of Chiang Kai-shek\'s Nationalist government.
It argues instead that international trade, government tariff revenues, and hence China\'s fiscal policy and state-making project all collapsed..
In this in-depth study, Felix Boecking challenges the widely accepted idea that the key to Communist seizure of power in China lay in the incompetence of Chiang Kai-shek\'s Nationalist government