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3 - The Unplanned Economy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Emily Honig
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Cruz
Xiaojian Zhao
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Chapter Three focuses on how the network of connections established by the sent-down youth movement provided rural leaders a way of bypassing state planning policies to obtain directly from Shanghai materials and equipment they desperately needed to establish small local industries. At a time when state planning policies favored large industrial centers such as Shanghai, most remote rural counties had almost no way to acquire resources, in spite of Mao’s advocacy of rural industry. Were it not for the sent-down youth movement, these county leaders would have had no connection to Shanghai, nor would agencies in Shanghai have had reasons to donate materials to places unfamiliar and irrelevant to them. Now, when rural local leaders issued requests for equipment, officials in Shanghai hustled to identify bureaus that could satisfy them, as the otherwise far more powerful Shanghai municipal government found itself dependent on small and peripheral local governments to take care of the city’s youth.

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Across the Great Divide
The Sent-down Youth Movement in Mao's China, 1968–1980
, pp. 65 - 86
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • The Unplanned Economy
  • Emily Honig, University of California, Santa Cruz, Xiaojian Zhao, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Book: Across the Great Divide
  • Online publication: 30 August 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108595728.004
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  • The Unplanned Economy
  • Emily Honig, University of California, Santa Cruz, Xiaojian Zhao, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Book: Across the Great Divide
  • Online publication: 30 August 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108595728.004
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  • The Unplanned Economy
  • Emily Honig, University of California, Santa Cruz, Xiaojian Zhao, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Book: Across the Great Divide
  • Online publication: 30 August 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108595728.004
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