Mao's Third Front
Title | Mao's Third Front PDF eBook |
Author | Covell F. Meyskens |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2020-05-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110880862X |
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.
Mao's Third Front
Title | Mao's Third Front PDF eBook |
Author | Covell F. Meyskens |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2020-05-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108489559 |
An examination of how economic development and everyday life intersected with the temperature of Cold War geopolitics in Mao's China.
Mao's China and the Cold War
Title | Mao's China and the Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | Jian Chen |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 2010-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807898902 |
This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of China's Communist revolution in 1949 set the stage, Chen says. The Korean War, the Taiwan Strait crises, and the Vietnam War--all of which involved China as a central actor--represented the only major "hot" conflicts during the Cold War period, making East Asia the main battlefield of the Cold War, while creating conditions to prevent the two superpowers from engaging in a direct military showdown. Beijing's split with Moscow and rapprochement with Washington fundamentally transformed the international balance of power, argues Chen, eventually leading to the end of the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the decline of international communism. Based on sources that include recently declassified Chinese documents, the book offers pathbreaking insights into the course and outcome of the Cold War.
Mao's Last Revolution
Title | Mao's Last Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Roderick MACFARQUHAR |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 742 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674040414 |
Explains why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and shows his Machiavellian role in masterminding it. This book documents the Hobbesian state that ensued. Power struggles raged among Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Jiang Qing - Mao's wife and leader of the Gang of Four - while Mao often played one against the other.
On Guerrilla Warfare
Title | On Guerrilla Warfare PDF eBook |
Author | Mao Tse-tung |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2012-03-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0486119572 |
The first documented, systematic study of a truly revolutionary subject, this 1937 text remains the definitive guide to guerrilla warfare. It concisely explains unorthodox strategies that transform disadvantages into benefits.
Mao's Little Red Book
Title | Mao's Little Red Book PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander C. Cook |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2014-03-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1107057221 |
On the fiftieth anniversary of Quotations from Chairman Mao, this pioneering volume examines the book as a global historical phenomenon.
Mao's China and After
Title | Mao's China and After PDF eBook |
Author | Maurice Meisner |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 614 |
Release | 1999-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0684856352 |
Presents a revised account of the revolution of 1966-1969 - Examines the social and political consequences of the upheaval - Deng Xiaoping - Democracy movement - Tienamnen Incident - Mao Zedong - The hundred flowers - Great Leap Forward.