"This is an outstanding and important work. Coble makes a major contribution to the study of twentieth-century China and Chinese capitalism, and provides the most detailed analysis to date of occupied China during World War II--a topic still largely repressed today in Chinese historical memory."--William C. Kirby, author of "State and Economy in Republican China: A Handbook for Scholars" "Coble has plunged into one of the most politically sensitive and under-researched periods of twentieth-century history, and he has ...
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"This is an outstanding and important work. Coble makes a major contribution to the study of twentieth-century China and Chinese capitalism, and provides the most detailed analysis to date of occupied China during World War II--a topic still largely repressed today in Chinese historical memory."--William C. Kirby, author of "State and Economy in Republican China: A Handbook for Scholars" "Coble has plunged into one of the most politically sensitive and under-researched periods of twentieth-century history, and he has emerged with portraits of numerous Chinese entrepreneurs and an original way of understanding them. His reinterpretation is thought-provoking because of its far-reaching implications for understanding how anyone--a Chinese, a capitalist, or anyone else--has come to grips with wartime challenges."--Sherman Cochran, author of "Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880-1937 "
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