Everyday lives in China's Cold War military-industrial complex [electronic resource] : voices from the Shanghai Small Third Front, 1964-1988 / Youwei Xu, Y. Yvon Wang.
This book translates and contextualizes the recollections of men and women who built, lived, and worked in some of the factory compounds relocated from Chinas most cosmopolitan cityShanghai. Small Third Line factories became oases of relatively prosperous urban life among more impoverished agricultu...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2022.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in oral history.
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| Summary: | This book translates and contextualizes the recollections of men and women who built, lived, and worked in some of the factory compounds relocated from Chinas most cosmopolitan cityShanghai. Small Third Line factories became oases of relatively prosperous urban life among more impoverished agricultural communities. These accounts, plus the guiding questions, contextual notes, and further readings accompanying them, show how everyday lives fit into the sweeping geopolitical changes in China and the world during the Cold War era. Furthermore, they reveal how the Chinese Communist Partys military-industrial strategies have shaped Chinas economy and society in the post-Mao era. The approachable translations and insight into areas of life rarely covered by political or diplomatic histories like sexuality and popular culture make this book highly accessible for classroom use and the general-interest reader. Xu Youwei is Professor of History at Shanghai University, China. Y. Yvon Wang is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, Canada. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9783030996888 3030996883 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |