Mao's Third Front

The Militarization of Cold War China

Mao's Third Front
Covell F Meyskens
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Hardback
h236 x 160mm - 292pg
14 May 2020 UK
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9781108489553
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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.
Covell Meyskens is Assistant Professor in the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval Postgraduate School.
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ISBN-13: 9781108489553
Published: 14 May 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 236mm
Width: 160mm
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 600g
Pages: 292

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