Overview
- Examines an under-studied dimension of late Mao-era history
- Reveals difficulties and triumphs of everyday life in remote, inland China
- Translates oral histories from ordinary Chinese citizens
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History (PSOH)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book translates and contextualizes the recollections of men and women who built, lived, and worked in some of the factory compounds relocated from China’s most cosmopolitan city—Shanghai. 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 Party’s military-industrial strategies have shaped China’s 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.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Xu Youwei is Professor of History at Shanghai University, China.
Y. Yvon Wang is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Everyday Lives in China's Cold War Military-Industrial Complex
Book Subtitle: Voices from the Shanghai Small Third Front, 1964-1988
Authors: Youwei Xu, Y. Yvon Wang
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99688-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99687-1Published: 23 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99690-1Published: 24 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99688-8Published: 22 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-5673
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 371
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oral History, History of China, History of Military