Book contents
- Making Mao’s Steelworks
- Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China
- Making Mao’s Steelworks
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Empire, War, and the Global Crisis of Capitalism, 1915–1948
- Part II Socialist Industrialization as a Hybrid System, 1948–1957
- 3 Making Manchuria Red
- 4 The Soviet Big Brother Is Watching You
- 5 Who Owns the State-Owned Enterprise?
- 6 Speaking Maoist
- Part III Socialisms with Chinese Characteristics, 1957–2000
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A Note on Primary Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Making Manchuria Red
from Part II - Socialist Industrialization as a Hybrid System, 1948–1957
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2024
- Making Mao’s Steelworks
- Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China
- Making Mao’s Steelworks
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Empire, War, and the Global Crisis of Capitalism, 1915–1948
- Part II Socialist Industrialization as a Hybrid System, 1948–1957
- 3 Making Manchuria Red
- 4 The Soviet Big Brother Is Watching You
- 5 Who Owns the State-Owned Enterprise?
- 6 Speaking Maoist
- Part III Socialisms with Chinese Characteristics, 1957–2000
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A Note on Primary Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter delves into the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) takeover and reconstruction of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Manchuria between 1948 and 1952. It was here, during the Civil War, that the CCP first experimented with Soviet-style centralized economic planning. In the early People’s Republic of China, Manchuria emerged as the largest center of socialist industrialization, owing to the heavy industry facilities built by the Japanese and the SOE system developed by the Nationalists. The CCP drew on the expertise of the remaining Japanese and Nationalist engineers, managers, and skilled workers to reconstruct Angang and other major SOEs in Manchuria. The party co-opted these knowledge workers by carefully incorporating former Nationalist Chinese as members of the new regime and segregating the Japanese from the local Chinese community. The CCP’s reliance on Japanese and Nationalist experts came to an end as Cold War tensions intensified during the Korean War.
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- Making Mao's SteelworksIndustrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism, pp. 101 - 129Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024