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Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China

Autor Covell F. Meyskens
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 mai 2020
In 1964, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made a momentous policy decision. In response to rising tensions with the United States and Soviet Union, a top-secret massive military industrial complex in the mountains of inland China was built, which the CCP hoped to keep hidden from enemy bombers. Mao named this the Third Front. The Third Front received more government investment than any other developmental initiative of the Mao era, and yet this huge industrial war machine, which saw the mobilization of fifteen million people, was not officially acknowledged for over a decade and a half. Drawing on a rich collection of archival documents, memoirs, and oral interviews, Covell Meyskens provides the first history of the Third Front campaign. He shows how the militarization of Chinese industrialization linked millions of everyday lives to the global Cold War, merging global geopolitics with local change.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108489553
ISBN-10: 1108489559
Pagini: 292
Dimensiuni: 160 x 236 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction; 1. The coming of the third front campaign; 2. Good people and good horses go to the third front; 3.Concentrating forces to wage wars of annihilation; 4.Produce first and consume later; 5.Industrial development amid cold war insecurity; Epilogue. The demilitarization of chinese socialism; Appendix. Third front demographics

Recenzii

'… the Third Front still has potential for further research and this book has laid the groundwork for future efforts.' Youngjune Chung, Pacific Affairs

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Descriere

An examination of how economic development and everyday life intersected with the temperature of Cold War geopolitics in Mao's China.