Koji Hirata

Making Mao's Steelworks

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 686g
• ISBN-13: 9781009382274
• ISBN-10: 1009382276
• Artikelnr.: 70289470

Autorenporträt

Koji Hirata is a lecturer in history at Monash University.

Inhaltsangabe

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.