Mao's Third Front
The Militarization of Cold War China
Seiten
2020
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-48955-3 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-48955-3 (ISBN)
Covell Meyskens reveals a little-known chapter of Chinese history in this examination of the ways that socialism, militarism, and economic development became intertwined in a giant industrial campaign to protect socialist China from the military dangers of the Cold War.
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.
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.
Covell Meyskens is Assistant Professor in the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval Postgraduate School.
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
Erscheinungsdatum | 14.05.2020 |
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Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 160 x 236 mm |
Gewicht | 600 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-108-48955-9 / 1108489559 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-48955-3 / 9781108489553 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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