ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines some of the ways in which the wartime Chinese state engaged in practices that transnationalized the national. The rhizomatic and acephalous nature of the qiaopiju networks made it exceptionally difficult for the Post Office to replicate their business model. The officially designated agents included all the banks in the overseas Chinese remittance financial network as well as the Chinese Post Office's agents. The creation of this state-run transnational network that linked together diasporic communities, transnational corporations, and global financial markets with the Chinese state required various structural changes within the state. The National Government actively supported the national salvation movement among overseas Chinese communities. Between late 1936 and early 1938, the Directorate began using this information to form its own transnational remittance network. Most scholarship on the overseas Chinese remittance industry focuses on the successful business practices of the qiaopiju in the pre-war period.
