Saving the nation: economic modernity in republican China

Pt I: Envisioning modern China

China's Minzu economy

The rural question: Identity, modernity and peasants in China's industrial development

Pt. II: Building the coporativist state

The politics of reconstruction: Song Ziwen and the National Economic Council

The Cotton Control Commission and the corporativist organization of the nation

Pt. III: From theory to practice

Implementing rural reforms

Officials, industrial magnates, and bureaucratic capitalism

Pt. IV: Defending which nation?

From nationalism to collaboration

Conclusion.