Mao's Third Front
Hardcover 286 pages English May 14, 2020
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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.
- Author:
- Covell F. Meyskens
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:
- May 14, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 286 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1108489559
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108489553