Grain Issues Research "island" During The Concession

Grain problem is a matter of national economy and peoples livelihood.If there isno stable grain supply marketing channels, and no enough food reserves, society isdifficult to settle and regime,what’s more, the regime will be impossible to firm. Sograin problem is very important especially during the war-time. Shanghai is thelargest consumption of rice and transit market before war of resistance againstaggression, but with the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Shanghai rice marketsuffered a devastating blow, especially after Japanese army carry out economicblockade in major rice producing areas, Shanghai not only lost the function of thetransit trade, even civil food supply was cut off. During the the Anti-Japanese War,Shanghai was plagued by the food crisis, such as soaring food prices, panic and socialunrest because short of grain.Thus researches based on grain problem can reflect acertain historical period of political, economic, social and cultural issues.Island time is a special period in the history of Shanghai, because the concessionregime and occupied China regime existed, Japanese forces involved in directly at thesame time, Shanghai political situation fell into chaos.Under the circumstances,it’sbrought huge obstacles to research issues related.Previous researches about grainproblem of Central China in Anti-Japanese War mostly put Puppet Regime as themain line, and the research major in describing the change of food regulatedinstitutions and the evolution of the policy.But the researches on Shanghais grainproblems was simple, didn’t give concrete analysis of concrete problems.This articlewill take the large-scale rice riots during the period of the Island Time as the mainline.The author will grasp typical events and important grain regulated institutionschange through a large number of raw material. It’s strive to reflect the whole foodsupply system and status of Puppet Regime even the whole Shanghai areacomprehensively.The writer will see the essence through the phenomena to explorethe deep-seated cause of civil food panic and disaster,and restore history and status.