Government monopoly policies on cane sugar during the Second Sino -Japanese War broke up the existing sug-ar pricing regimes in Sichuan and Sikang.The changes of sugar pricing regimes finally led to interest conflicts or even violent clashes between sugarcane farmers and sugar merchants with sugar monopoly administrations,an extension of the central gov-ernment power,for sugar price was closely connected not only with wartime economic control and national revenue,but with sugarcane farmers’and sugar merchants’vital interests as well.Local adm...
