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Chinese Societies During the Mao Era: Work and Life in the “Shanghai Small Third Front”

In: Studies on the Chinese Economy During the Mao Era

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  • Tomoo Marukawa

    (The University of Tokyo)

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Several million workers and engineers moved inland from the coastal and northeastern provinces during the 1960s for the construction of the “Third Front”—a vast geographical area in China’s interior where basic and military industries were developed and constructed. They experienced the most drastic changes in their lives because the factories were situated in the valleys of mountainous regions in inland provinces to conceal them from airstrikes. This chapter explores the work and life of those who moved from Shanghai to the “Shanghai Small Third Front,” which was a huge military industry complex located in Southern Anhui province having 81 factories and facilities and 67 thousand employees. It was an isolated enclave of Shanghai in the mountainous region of Anhui province, and therefore the employees depended heavily on their firms for the provision of various services and means of living, such as residence, food, entertainment, education for children, medical care, public security, and even spouses. This chapter describes how the complex operated, how people lived there, and how the complex was closed.

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  • Tomoo Marukawa, 2022. "Chinese Societies During the Mao Era: Work and Life in the “Shanghai Small Third Front”," Studies in Economic History, in: Katsuji Nakagane (ed.), Studies on the Chinese Economy During the Mao Era, chapter 0, pages 229-248, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:stechp:978-981-19-5410-8_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-5410-8_11
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