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ID642
NameChina's economic resources and productivity
TitleWhat China Yields in Peace and in War
Year1939
AuthorArnold, Julean, Commercial Attache, Shanghai
CollectionNARA, General records of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (RG151)
Sub collectionRecords Relating to Commercial Attaches' Reports, China (Peiping), 1938, Box 128
Reference NumberEntry 14, Box 128
Repository typeArchive
Description

Special Report No. S-22. Shanghai, China. September 25, 1939. 24p

23p report by Commercial Attache Arnold, aimed to present a comprehensive picture of the economic resources of China as they pertain to the productivity of the nation - warning that it would be of little use to treat this subject in an academic manner this time, due to the war and Japanese occupation. 

  • What China Yields in Peace and in War
  • Rice Versus Wheat
  • Kaoliang and Millet, Kings of the North
  • China Lead in Sweet Potatoes
  • The Soy Bean, the Cow of China
  • China supreme in Vegetable Oils
  • Tung Oil, Chin's Principal Export Item
  • America Cast Peanuts upon China Waters
  • China's Great Varieties of Vegetables and Fruits
  • Sugar, an Index to Economic Modernization
  • China, the Original Garden of Eden
  • Tea Produces an Abstemious China
  • China Drew upon NAture for her Dyestuffs
  • tobacco Shows How China's Economic Winds Blow
  • China's Vegetable Civilization
  • The Consumption of Animal Foods Grow in Popularity 
  • Brief Recapitulation of China's Food Products
  • What do the Chinese Wear?
  • Poverty Favors Cotton
  • What About the Chinese Home?
  • Bamboo, the Friend of the Chinese People
  • Coal and Iron in China's Mineral Resources
  • The World Looks to Chinafor Antimony and Tungsten
  • Petroleum Resources Promising
  • Gold and Silver and the Chinese Currency Situation
  • Significance of China's Handicraft Industries
  • America, China's Principal Customer
  • Independent China, the World's Biggest Potential Market
  • America's Relations to China's Yields
Comment

Records Relating to Commercial Attaches' Reports, China (Peiping), 1938, Box 128, folder "Foreign Service - Copies of Reports - Peiping - 1939 - September", p.138-162

 

 

Keywordsreport ; commercial attache ; special ; Beijing ; Shanghai ; productivity ; Japanese ; war ; resource ; agriculture ; region ; food ; beverage ; consumption ; clothing ; housing ; poverty ; mining ; finance ; handicraft ; industry ; export
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