Seon-hui Lee

The Chinese Nationalist Government’s Access to and Limitations on Xinjiang’s Resources : A Case Study of the Dushanzi Oil Field, 1942–1946

This article traces the Chinese Nationalist Government’s approach to the Dushanzi Oil Field (獨山子油礦) in Xinjiang between 1942 and 1946, aiming to reveal that political consolidation and substantive control over resources were, in practice, two separate matters. Sheng Shicai’s (盛世才) 1942 shift from a pro-Soviet t...