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Author Meyskens, Covell F., 1978- author.

Title Mao's third front : the militarization of Cold War China / Covell F. Meyskens, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 281 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 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
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."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from resource home page (Cambridge University Press, viewed on March 18, 2021)
Subject Defense industries -- China
Economic policy
Defense industries
SUBJECT China -- Economic policy -- 1949-1976. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024022
China -- History, Military. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86001944
Subject China
Genre/Form Military history
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019053354
ISBN 9781108784788
110878478X
1108489559
9781108489553
9781108804684
1108804683