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3 - Making Manchuria Red

from Part II - Socialist Industrialization as a Hybrid System, 1948–1957

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2024

Koji Hirata
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
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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 Steelworks
Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism
, pp. 101 - 129
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Making Manchuria Red
  • Koji Hirata, Monash University, Victoria
  • Book: Making Mao's Steelworks
  • Online publication: 19 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009382281.007
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  • Making Manchuria Red
  • Koji Hirata, Monash University, Victoria
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009382281.007
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  • Making Manchuria Red
  • Koji Hirata, Monash University, Victoria
  • Book: Making Mao's Steelworks
  • Online publication: 19 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009382281.007
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