Making Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism
By Koji Hirata
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https://doi.org/10.25365/jeacs.2026.7.1.chen_langKeywords:
Northeastern China, socialist industrialisation, Anshan Iron and Steel Works (Angang), Japanese colonialism, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), transnational socialism, late industrialisation, political campaigns, Soviet aid, capitalist-socialist symbiosisAbstract
Making Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism
By Koji Hirata
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. xiii + 355 pp.
ISBN: 9781009382267
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