Making Mao''s Steelworks - Industrial Manchuria Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism

Informationen zum Autor Koji Hirata is a lecturer in history at Monash University. Klappentext "The history of the most significant Mao-era industrial enterprise, Anshan Iron and Steel Works, reveals the hybrid nature of China's industrialization, shaped by both transnational and local dynamics. Through this unique lens, Hirata explores the interplay of socialism and capitalism within the global history of late industrialization"-- Zusammenfassung The history of the most significant Mao-era industrial enterprise, Anshan Iron and Steel Works, reveals the hybrid nature of China's industrialization, shaped by both transnational and local dynamics. Through this unique lens, Hirata explores the interplay of socialism and capitalism within the global history of late industrialization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Industrial Manchuria and the transnational origins of Chinese socialism; Part I. Empire, War, and the Global Crisis of Capitalism, 1915-1948: 1. Blood, iron, and the Japanese empire; 2. The soviets and nationalists are coming; Part II. Socialist Industrialization as a Hybrid System, 1948-1957: 3. Making Manchuria red; 4. The soviet big brother is watching you; 5. Who owns the state-owned enterprise?; 6. Speaking Maoist; Part III. Socialisms with Chinese Characteristics, 1957-2000: 7. The three lives of the Angang constitution; 8. The socialist rustbelt in the market economy; Conclusion: making Mao's steelworks; Acknowledgements; Appendix: a note on primary sources; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Koji Hirata, Koji (Monash University Hirata
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9781009382274
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0938227-4
• No. of pages: 370
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Asia / General, Economic history, Asian History