30 min

Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, with Felix Boecking Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

    • Utbildning

"No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945" (Harvard Asia Center, 2017), an in-depth study of Nationalist tariff policy, fundamentally challenges the widely accepted idea that the key to the Communist seizure of power in China lay in the incompetence of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government. It argues instead that during the second Sino-Japanese War, China’s international trade, the Nationalist government’s tariff revenues, and hence its fiscal policy and state-making project all collapsed. Drawing on the historical lessons of my research, in this talk, I will also discuss the unintended consequences of protectionism, the difficulties of strategising trade wars, and the differences between trade wars and real wars.

Felix Boecking is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese Economic and Political History at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and currently a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. Among his research interests are China’s political economy, the history of economics in the People’s Republic of China, and the history of China’s foreign relations. His current project at the Wilson Center is “Economics on the Edge: An Intellectual History of Economists in the PRC since 1949.”

The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.

Read and download the transcript for this podcast on our website.https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/felix-boecking-modern-china-lecture-series/

"No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945" (Harvard Asia Center, 2017), an in-depth study of Nationalist tariff policy, fundamentally challenges the widely accepted idea that the key to the Communist seizure of power in China lay in the incompetence of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government. It argues instead that during the second Sino-Japanese War, China’s international trade, the Nationalist government’s tariff revenues, and hence its fiscal policy and state-making project all collapsed. Drawing on the historical lessons of my research, in this talk, I will also discuss the unintended consequences of protectionism, the difficulties of strategising trade wars, and the differences between trade wars and real wars.

Felix Boecking is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese Economic and Political History at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and currently a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC. Among his research interests are China’s political economy, the history of economics in the People’s Republic of China, and the history of China’s foreign relations. His current project at the Wilson Center is “Economics on the Edge: An Intellectual History of Economists in the PRC since 1949.”

The "Harvard on China" podcast is hosted by James Evans at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.

Read and download the transcript for this podcast on our website.https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/felix-boecking-modern-china-lecture-series/

30 min

Mest populära poddar inom Utbildning

Sjuka Fakta
Simon Körösi
Livet på lätt svenska
Sara Lövestam och Isabelle Stromberg
The Mel Robbins Podcast
Mel Robbins
Närvaropodden
Bengt Renander
I väntan på katastrofen
Kalle Zackari Wahlström
Swedish podcast for beginners (Lätt svenska med Oskar)
Oskar Nyström

Mer av Harvard University

HBR IdeaCast
Harvard Business Review
The Harvard EdCast
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
The HBR Channel
Harvard Business Review
Harvard Medical Labcast
Harvard Medical School Office of Communications and External Relations
PolicyCast
Harvard Kennedy School