Everyday Lives in China's Cold War Military-Industrial Complex

Download or read book Everyday Lives in China's Cold War Military-Industrial Complex written by Youwei Xu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.