The policing of a South Chinese county, 1929-1949

• Main Author: Viana, Venus
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::History::Asia::China
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101813; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25047
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In 1927, when the Nationalist Party under Chiang Kai-shek established a republic, they also established a list of urgent duties. One was to reform the government structure from top to bottom so as to show the rest of the world its capability to govern the country in a modern way. While big cities we...