from Part II - The Socialist Boost
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2024
Chapter 3 traces the establishment and distribution of hydroelectricity in the early People’s Republic. Inheriting technical personnel from the defeated Nationalist regime, the Communist government worked to create its own infrastructure. This chapter argues that the cooperation between party leaders and “experts from the old society” functioned relatively smoothly until the rise of radical Maoism in 1958. The harnessing of rivers was matched and enabled by the taming of individuals with technical expertise.
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