Mao's Third Front by Covell F Meyskens

Mao's Third Front by Covell F Meyskens

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.

'… the Third Front still has potential for further research and this book has laid the groundwork for future efforts' Youngjune Chung, Pacific Affairs
'… [offers] both new theoretical insights and methodological innovations to the study of the role of technology in modern Chinese warfare. … [the book] will be inspiration for future studies in the history of warfare and science and technology in modern China.' Zhongtian Han, China International Strategy Review

Covell Meyskens is Assistant Professor in the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval Postgraduate School.

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ISBN 13	9781108489553
ISBN 10	1108489559
Title	Mao's Third Front
Author	Covell F Meyskens
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2020-05-14
Number of pages	292
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