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- Making Mao’s Steelworks
- Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China
- Making Mao’s Steelworks
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Empire, War, and the Global Crisis of Capitalism, 1915–1948
- Part II Socialist Industrialization as a Hybrid System, 1948–1957
- 3 Making Manchuria Red
- 4 The Soviet Big Brother Is Watching You
- 5 Who Owns the State-Owned Enterprise?
- 6 Speaking Maoist
- Part III Socialisms with Chinese Characteristics, 1957–2000
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A Note on Primary Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Speaking Maoist
from Part II - Socialist Industrialization as a Hybrid System, 1948–1957
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2024
- Making Mao’s Steelworks
- Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China
- Making Mao’s Steelworks
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Empire, War, and the Global Crisis of Capitalism, 1915–1948
- Part II Socialist Industrialization as a Hybrid System, 1948–1957
- 3 Making Manchuria Red
- 4 The Soviet Big Brother Is Watching You
- 5 Who Owns the State-Owned Enterprise?
- 6 Speaking Maoist
- Part III Socialisms with Chinese Characteristics, 1957–2000
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A Note on Primary Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to politically mobilize Angang employees. Angang educated workers and engineers in the official Maoist ideology through study programs and propaganda campaigns. Under the danwei system, employees relied on Angang for social welfare benefits. To improve their positions within the CCP–created system, workers and engineers negotiated with state-owned enterprise (SOE) authorities, leveraging the discourse and institutional rules established by the party-state. These negotiations were exemplified by the Hundred Flowers Campaign of 1957. SOE workers and engineers participated in the CCP project of socialist industrialization by pursuing their interests within the ideological rules of the game set by the party-state.
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- Making Mao's SteelworksIndustrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism, pp. 193 - 226Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024