Title Everyday lives in China's Cold War military-industrial complex : voices from the Shanghai Small Third Front, 1964-1988 / Youwei Xu, Y. Yvon Wang

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 371 pages) : illustrations Series Palgrave Studies in Oral History Palgrave studies in oral history. Contents 1. Translator's Introduction -- 2. Units, Measures, Currency, Ages, and Names -- 3. An Official Account of the Small Third Front in Guichi, Anhui -- 4. Going to the Small Third front -- 5. On the Job -- 6. Material Life and Healthcare -- 7. Education, Media and Culture -- 8. Gender and Sex -- 9. Marriage, Reproduction, Family -- 10. Politics, Social Order, and Military Affairs -- 11. Shanghainese vs. Locals -- 12. Appraisals and Critiques 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. Notes Print version record Subject Military-industrial complex -- China -- History -- 20th century Cold War. Communism -- China -- History -- 20th century City and town life -- China -- History -- 20th century City and town life Communism Diplomatic relations Military-industrial complex SUBJECT China -- Foreign relations -- 1949-1976. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024029 China -- Foreign relations -- 1976- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024031 China -- History, Military -- 1949- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86001945 Subject China Genre/Form History Military history Form Electronic book Author Wang, Y. Yvon, 1986- author. ISBN 9783030996888 3030996883

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