Nanjing Nationalist Government Regained Tariff Autonomy In The Course

At the middle of 1920s, China had the surge of the movement of rectification of new treaty and independent of tariff. Republic government ultimately broke the unequal treaty system, the policy toward China of the powers and tariff wall through tough negotiation of several years. In May 1930, China signed the tariff treaty with Japan government that indicated that China achieved the independent of tariff.The dissertation mainly based on the related archives in the Foreign Documents of Japan from 1927-1930, and some published and unpublished documents, dissertations in China and Japan, made a thorough investigation of the negotiation, tariff policy, the process of decision-making and implement.The dissertation places the complex negotiation process into the background of Chinese and world political situation. After analyzing the numerous historical documents, the dissertation would like to do more in indicating that the powers each trying to cheat the other, Republic government how to achieve the tariff independent step by step. Certainly, the main point of the dissertation is to open out the historical courses, idiographic behavior and complex reasons of Japanese government how to resist, prevent and crab the movement of China's tariff independent. By correcting some mistaken historical facts and clearing some obscure ones with the help of the first-hand materials, the framework of the movement of China's tariff independent.