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  • 3 - The Making of Red Hydro Technostructure

  • from Part II - The Socialist Boost
  • Xiangli Ding, Rhode Island School of Design
  • Book:
    Hydropower Nation
    Published online:
    24 October 2024
    Print publication:
    07 November 2024, pp 83-114

  • Summary

    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.