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3 - The Making of Red Hydro Technostructure

from Part II - The Socialist Boost

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2024

Xiangli Ding
Xiangli Ding
Affiliation:
Rhode Island School of Design
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Chapter 3 traces the establishment and distribution of hydroelectricity in the early People’s Republic. Inheriting technical personnel from the defeated Nationalist regime, the Communist government worked to create its own infrastructure. This chapter argues that the cooperation between party leaders and “experts from the old society” functioned relatively smoothly until the rise of radical Maoism in 1958. The harnessing of rivers was matched and enabled by the taming of individuals with technical expertise.

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technostructureLi RuiHuang YuxianZhang Guangdouradical Maoism
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Hydropower Nation
Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China
 , pp. 83 - 114
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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