ABSTRACT
The previous chapter has emphasised the international context and the domestic political situation in analysing the first two phases of the War of Resistance. This chapter turns to an issue equally fundamental to Nationalist war-making: wartime mobilisation. I shall discuss military recruitment, the collection and distribution of grains, other agricultural products, and primary sources for industry, setting out Nationalist approaches to these tasks and analysing their effects on the Nationalists’ military capacity, Chinese society, and the position of the Nationalist state.
