Mao's third front: the militarization of Cold War China

by Meyskens, Covell F.

Type Book

Rate 0.0 /5

Details

Files

Reviews

Download

Title Statements

Full title :Mao's third front : the militarization of Cold War China / Covell F. Meyskens, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.

Summary

"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 twelve 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."--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 281 pages) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781108784788, 110878478X
oclc:on1145096137
LC Classification:HC427.9
Dewey Decimal:338.4/73550095109045

The coming of the third front campaign -- Good people and good horses go to the third front -- Concentrating forces to wage wars of annihilation -- Produce first and consume later -- Industrial development amid cold war insecurity -- Epilogue: the demilitarization of Chinese socialism.

Subjects

China China -- Economic policy -- 1949-1976 China -- History, Military Chine -- Histoire militaire Chine -- Politique économique -- 1949-1… Defense industries Defense industries -- China Economic policy Electronic books Industrie militaire -- Chine Military history