Plants,Commerce and Current Situation:Introduction and Promotion of Pyrethrum in the Context of National Crisis,1887-1949
Pyrethrum is one of the important agricultural exports of Japan in modern times.After the defeat of the Sino-Japancse War of 1894-1895,China recognized and gradually introduced pyrethrum,a product of Japan's emerging agricultural economy,under the background of taking Japan as a teacher.With the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement,Japanese pyrethrum,which monopolized the Chinese market,was boycotted by Chinese people.At the same time,the businessmen promoted the pyrethrum as a"lucrative"agricultural cash crop which could"prevent outflow of benefits".They advocated the planting of pyrethrum to replace Japanese goods and thus triggered a wave of pyrethrum planting.After the September 18th Incident,the Kuomintang entrusted pyrethrum with the mission and significance of"resistance against Japan through economic means"in order to resist Japan from the economic aspect.It vigorously advocated the planting of pyrethrum and received wide response from all over the country.The planting scale of pyrethrum in China was growing day by day.However,the full-scale outbreak of the war of resistance against Japan dealt a devastating blow to the pyrethrum planting industry,which had never recovered.Pyrethrum is originally only an insecticidal plant of the Compositae family,but its introduction and promotion process are an epitome of China's expectations and efforts to resist Japanese aggression economically in the context of national crisis in modern times.
Modern ChinaPyrethrumPlantingNational CrisisSino-Japanese Relations
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