Mao's Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China

ISBN-13: 9781108489553 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 292 str.

Covell F. Meyskens

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'… the Third Front still has potential for further research and this book has laid the groundwork for future efforts.' Youngjune Chung, Pacific Affairs

Spis treści

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